Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Statistics released by the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) showed that the value of shares bought by non-Jordanian investors in November 2019 stood at JD22.8 million, representing 24.5% of the overall trading value.

Statistics have also shown that the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD 8.2 million.

As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments in November 2019 showed a positive value of JD14.6 million, compared to the same month of 2018 where the net of non-Jordanian investments showed a negative value of JD3.3 million.

The value of shares bought by non-Jordanian investors since the beginning of the year until the end of November 2019 was JD463.1 million, representing 31.6% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD342.4 million.

This means that the net of non-Jordanian investments amounted to JD120.7 million, compared to JD23.6 million during the same period of 2018.

The ASE said Arab investors purchases since from January to November of this year stood at JD334.2 million, or 72.2% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanians, while the non-Arab purchases amounted to JD128.8 million, constituting 27.8% of the total purchases.

Meanwhile, Arab investors sales amounted to JD228.4 million, or 66.7% of non-Jordanians total sales, while the non-Arab sales amounted to JD114.0 million, representing 33.3% of the total sales by non-Jordanians.

Non-Jordanian investors' ownership in companies listed at the ASE by end of November 2019 represented 51.2% of the total market value, 35.8% for Arab investors and 15.4% for non-Arab investors.

At the sector level, the non-Jordanian ownership in the financial sector was 56%, in the services sector was 19%, and in the industrial sector was 60.3%.