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Non Jordanian Investment at The ASE during July 2014

The total value of shares bought by non-Jordanian investors during July 2014 was JD17.6 million, representing 17% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD22.7 million. Thus, the net of non-Jordanian investments during July 2014 showed a decrease of JD5.1 million.

The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors since the beginning of the year until the end of July 2014 was JD215.8 million, representing 15.2% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD249.5 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments showed a decrease of JD33.6 million, compared to an increase of JD118.2 million for the same period of 2013.  

As for the value of total purchases of non-Jordanian investors, the value of the  Arab investors purchases since the beginning of the year until the end of July 2014 were JD157 million, or 72.7% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanians, while the value of non-Arab purchases amounted to JD58.8 million, constituting 27.3% of the total purchases. As for the value of total sales of non-Jordanian investors, the value of the Arab investors sales amounted to JD152 million, 60.9% of non-Jordanians total sales, while the value of non-Arab sales amounted to JD97.5 million, representing 39.1% of the total sales by non-Jordanians.

Non-Jordanian ownership in companies listed at the ASE by the end of July 2014 represented 49.5% of the total market value, 36.4% for Arab investors and 13.1% for non-Arab investors.

At the sector level, the non-Jordanian ownership in the market capitalization of  listed companies at the end of July reached 54.8% for the Financial sector, 26.8% for the Services sector, and 51.8% for the Industrial sector.