The Saudi Market starts the second quarter with the pressure of US definitions

The Saudi Stock Market began the first session of the second quarter of 2025, amid the pressure imposed by the comprehensive US Customs duties of President Donald Trump, which will find its way to influence through different channels, including the morale of investors and oil prices, in light of good basic factors and awaiting the performance of the market. The market opened on a boat of 1%today, Thursday, and the most important index dropped below the most important resistance level of 12,000 points. This comes after the first quarter of the year ended with a marginal decrease of less than ten percentage points after ranging up and down last March, and that second separate decline in a row for the first time since the end of 2022. On the sectoral level, the telecommunications sector won by 12.6%, and the banking sector rose by 7.7%, while the energy sector had covered more than 4 While it hit the arrow “, which dropped, which dropped, which dropped, while showing the shares of the basic material sector 5.3%, and the public aid program fell by 13.3%. Year. “As far as economic activity in the region is concerned, it cannot be much affected because the exports of the region to the United States not just as we see in the case of Canada, Mexico and China. But if the world markets are sold, and given the strength of the interdependence between the world markets and the market markets, this pressure can be transferred to the market,” according to Hassan. ” Global Financial Markets was witnessing a large scale sales wave after Trump’s attempt to form the global trading system more aggressively than expected. The shares withdrew, Treasury bonds rose, and the Japanese yen earned momentum, while the anxious investors sought safe ports. The shares at the start of trading in Asia from Sydney to Seoul, where the index in Japan dropped to the lowest level in almost eight months. The yields of US Treasury bonds also dropped to their lowest level in more than five months to ten years, while the wave of searching for safe assets strengthened the gains of the Japanese yen and gold, setting a new record. From “Apple” to “Toyota Motor”, the shares of international businesses that depend on international trade. Global interconnection around the local markets Hisham Al -Aayas, the chief financial analyst of “Al Sharq”, believes that the Saudi market will still be influenced by what is happening in the global markets. He adds: “In the recent period, we saw a decrease in the correlation coefficient between the Tasi and the S&B 500 index of the highest level in 5 years in October last year … But there is the morale of investors affected by what’s going on in the world markets.” Although the Saudi Market is largely strengthened with the effects of customs duties, which will affect other countries with greater trade with the United States, the wave markets in general, and Saudi Arabia, will be influenced by these fees by two factors, the morale of investors and oil prices mainly, which is linked to the worldwide demand, according to the guarantee of the Department of the Department, Investment from the Department of the Department of an interview with “Al Sharq”. Oil prices are under pressure “If global growth will be affected by the result of commercial wars, oil prices will fall, which is why we do not stand a comprehensive flexibility in the face of challenges, but the region will generally be less affected, because the economies are not among the countries that are mainly affected by US customs,” according to Aroura. Oil prices also dropped today, as Brent -Ru futures lost about 2.5%, while the Ru of West Texas dropped and traded below $ 70 a barrel. About the trends of foreign investors to the market’s markets, Arra says investors can play the stock markets and stationed in bonds and financial markets as a result of sales and fluctuations that the markets are expected to see more than a month or two. “We could possibly see a state of collective decline, and then return to the Saudi market, as the focus can return more on companies related to the local economy and the local market,” according to what Al -Ayes see. Objects steal the lights, the shares of the initial proposals have recorded a remarkable achievement as the shares of “Umm Al -qura for development and reconstruction” (massar), which started on March 24, achieved the list of winners in the first quarter of the year with a profits of 59%, and the shares of ‘financial’, which began to start at the tent, Share in the tent of the tenth of the last month, the fifth place, started fifth, at the tenth of the tent of the last month, the fifth place, the fifth place that best begun at the terms of the tenth of the last month profitability has gained profitability by 22.7%, which is an indication of investors. presentation period. Technically, the basic factors of the market appear in good condition and support a kind of rise with the return of trading, according to what Ahmed Al -Brashid, the first financial analyst of the newspaper “Al -iqtisadiah” in an interview with “Al -Sharq”.