Foreign Trades on Abu Dhabi Stock Market Reach AED70 Billion in Early 2025
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Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) had a strong start to 2025, with more people and companies from outside the UAE buying and selling stocks. In the first three months of the year, foreign trades reached about AED70 billion. That’s a big jump from AED43 billion during the same time last year.
Foreign investors are now more interested in the UAE market. Their total investment went up by 151 percent. Last year, they invested around AED3.4 billion, but this year it jumped to over AED8.5 billion. This shows they trust the UAE market more than before. Foreign investors also made up a bigger part of all trades on the stock exchange. In early 2025, they were behind 42 percent of the trading, compared to just 31 percent in early 2024.
The total value of all companies on the ADX grew too. By the end of March 2025, the market was worth over AED2.93 trillion. Last year, it was AED2.84 trillion. Another exciting thing is that more people are now investing in Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). These are special types of funds that work like stocks. The value of ETFs went up by 109 percent from AED784 million last year to AED1.64 billion this year.
More shares were bought and sold overall. Trading value rose by 21 percent, reaching AED83.3 billion. The number of shares traded went up by 39 percent to more than 22 billion shares. There were also more deals made about 1.35 million trades, up 41 percent from last year. Institutional investors, like big companies and banks, also played a bigger role. They traded over AED134.9 billion worth of stocks, which is 22 percent more than last year. The ADX is growing fast, with more money, more trades, and more trust from investors around the world.
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