The Saudi Stock Exchange has the sixth monthly loss in 2025 amid world print

The Saudi stock market has been subjected to multiple pressure due to external factors such as oil and customs duties, as well as investors’ anticipation of the upcoming Federal Reserve step on monetary policy, which urged the general index to carry the sixth monthly loss this year. “Tassi” ended the Sunday session, low 0.3%, with a loss of more than 2%during August and dropped below 10700 points, mainly influenced by the decrease in the basic materials sector, which includes petrochemical enterprises, with Sabic agricultural nutritional stocks falling more than 5%. The performance of the leadership shares varied as the shares of the “Al -Rajhi Bank”, “Sabic” and “Aqua Power” took off, while the shares of “Aramco” and “Al -Hly Bank” increased. Financial analyst Youssef Youssef has been attributing the pressure since the beginning of the year to the market exposure to global oil prices, which affects the shares of energy and petrochemical enterprises and reduces the liquidity in the market. The value of the transactions reached 3.2 billion Riyals today. During an interview with “Al -Sharq”, Youssef said: “The Saudi market is the most open in the region on world markets with spending on oil revenue. It is also the most attractive to global investments, and therefore, with the continued customs war, some foreign institutions have preferred to move and carefully, which is the pressure on the Saudi stock market.” He added that although the market may compensate some of its losses during the remaining period of this year, it will be very difficult to use to achieve profits, unless oil prices improve more than $ 70 a barrel on average. Oil prices have been about 11% low since the beginning of this year, and Brent ruol was closed at $ 68 a barrel at the end of last week. Ikrami Abdullah, the chief financial analyst in the newspaper “Al -iqtisadiah”, has been waiting for it, and believes that the market has been affected in recent weeks in the absence of motivations and anticipation of the Federal Reserve on interest rates in September. Abdullah said during an intervention with “Al -Sharq”: “The primary factor of getting the market out of the current series is the federal decision in September, whether it will lower interest rates or not, because it will explain the vision of the future of monetary policy, which will definitely reflect on the stock markets.” High interest rates compete for stock markets due to other investment instruments that do not pose risks such as deposits and debt instruments, according to analysts. Saudi banks raised billions of dollars last week from issuing bonds and tools with a return of 6%. On Friday, interest rate exchange contracts showed 80% to reduce the federal stake in September, with a full price of a total of two cuts by a quarter percentage point until the end of 2025. Generally, 125 basis points of cash facilitation were priced up to 2026 September. The company’s board of directors recommended two consecutive plans for the purpose of restructuring the capital, in an effort to contain the accumulated losses of 7.3 billion Riyals at the end of the second quarter of the year. Financial advisor Mohamed Al -Maimouni said that the company’s most important approval of the company’s shareholder’s process is a good indication and indicates their eagerness to save the company. He added during an intervention with ‘Al -Sharq’ that the company underwent difficult circumstances due to the decline in profits and revenue with the high financing costs, in addition to fluctuations of petrochemical and oil prices. Increasing the capital will reduce the financing burden and increase the financial position of the business and give it the ability to reinvest the financing to more than 45 Riyals after the company announced a strategic partnership with ‘Riyadh Air’ to integrate the marketing efforts between the two companies. The third of the year.