Dubai, UAE – The Dubai Financial Market closed last week’s trading up by 1.83%, or 111.91 points, at 6,225.94 points.
This is supported by shares in the leading sectors, real estate, banking and industry.
The market capitalization of «DIB» rose to about 1.021 trillion dirhams by the end of the week’s session, Saturday.
Compared to about 1.004 trillion dirhams at the end of trading the previous week, with gains amounting to about 17.4 billion dirhams.
The stocks listed on the market attracted liquidity exceeding 3.62 billion dirhams, after trading more than one billion shares and executing 66,808 deals.
Supporting sectors
Market performance supported the growth of banking sector stocks by 1.35%.
Shares of «Emirates NBD Bank» rose by 2.62%, «Mashreq Bank» by 1.56%, «Amlak Finance» by 3.61%, and «Dubai Islamic Bank» by 0.43%.
Meanwhile, real estate sector stocks rose by 2.04%.
The shares of «Emaar Development» companies rose 3.53%, «Emaar Properties» 1.41%, and «Etihad Properties» 3.36%, in addition to the shares of «Tecom Group», which rose 0.3%.
Industrial sector stocks also rose by 2.63%.
Shares of «ALEC Holding Company» rose 10.53%, «Parkin» 5.06%, and «Air Arabia» 9.9%
During last week’s trading, foreign (non-Arab) investors in the Dubai Financial Market turned to buying, with a net investment of about 427.5 million dirhams.
After recording purchases worth more than 1.41 billion dirhams, compared to sales worth 987.85 million dirhams.
investor confidence
In addition, the co-founder and CEO of Sky Links Capital Group «Sky Links Capital», Daniel Taqieddine, confirmed that the UAE stock markets maintained the general positive momentum during the first week of the new year.
It is backed by strong fundamentals and investor confidence in both markets.
Taqieddine said: “The next stage, during which the results of listed companies’ profits for the fourth quarter of 2025 are expected to be announced, will constitute the next main catalyst for both markets (Dubai Financial and Abu Dhabi Securities)”.
He added that these results would push the Dubai market towards new historic levels.
After reaching its highest level in 18 years during last week’s trading.
In addition to providing the necessary support to the Abu Dhabi market if the results are positive.
