Here’s what you need to know before Tadawul trading on Sunday

Saudi Arabia’s benchmark index TASI ended flat at 12,291 last week. (Shutterstock)
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Updated 07 August 2022
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Here’s what you need to know before Tadawul trading on Sunday

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s benchmark index TASI ended flat at 12,291 last week, amid a wave of earning reports and declining oil prices.

The UAE and Qatar indexes were down as a drop in oil prices dragged down shares, but other Gulf peers recorded slight gains.

Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Qatar lost 0.3, 0.5, and 0.1 percent, respectively, while Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman advanced between 0.1 percent and 0.2 percent.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, Egypt’s blue-chip index EGX30 gained as much as 5.3 percent.

Oil prices exited the previous week at their lowest level since February, with Brent crude settling at $94.92 a barrel and US West Texas Intermediate at $89.01 a barrel.

Stock news

Elm Co. announced a 59 percent surge in profit for the first half of 2022 to SR444 million ($118 million), in addition to a contract award worth SR57 million with the Ministry of Interior

Leejam Sports Co. will distribute cash dividends of SR0.37 per share for the second quarter of 2022

Red Sea International saw its first-half losses widen to SR67 million, following a revenue drop of 24 percent

Jazan Energy and Development Co. announced the resignation of its CEO Bedor Nasser Al-Rashoudi

Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Services Group said it will payout SR0.86 per share in quarterly dividends after posting a 22 percent profit rise to SR789 million for the first half of 2022

Unitholders of Alkhabeer Diversified Income Traded Fund will receive a cash dividend of SR0.26 per unit for the first half of the year

Calendar

August 14, 2022

Saudi Aramco will announce its financial results for the second quarter of 2022


World faces largest-ever oil supply disruption on Middle East war, IEA says

Updated 12 March 2026
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World faces largest-ever oil supply disruption on Middle East war, IEA says

LONDON: The war in the Middle East is creating the biggest oil supply disruption in history, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday, a day after the agency agreed to release a record volume of oil from strategic stockpiles.

Global supply is expected to drop by 8 million barrels per day in March due to the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow channel along the Iranian coast, since the US and Israel began a campaign of airstrikes on Iran on Feb. 28.

Middle East Gulf countries have cut total oil production by at least 10 million bpd — a volume equal to almost 10 percent of world demand — as a result of the conflict, the IEA said in its latest monthly oil market report, adding that without a rapid restart of shipping flows these losses were set to increase.

“Shut-in upstream production will take weeks and, in some cases, months to return to pre-crisis levels depending on the degree of field complexity and the timing for workers, equipment and resources to return to the region,” the agency said.