The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors during January 2015 was JD 27.9million, representing 15% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD28.5 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investment during January 2015 showed a decrease by JD0.6 million, compared with a decrease by JD4.1 million during the same month of 2014.
Arab investors purchases during January 2015 were JD25.8 million, or 92.6% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanians, while the value of non-Arab purchases amounted to JD2.1 million, constituting 7.4% of the total purchases. Arab investors sales amounted to JD23.9 million, 83.7% of non-Jordanians total sales, while the value of non-Arab sales amounted to JD4.6 million, representing 16.3% of the total sales by non-Jordanians.
Non-Jordanian ownership in companies listed at the ASE by end of January 2015 represented 48.6% of the total market value, 36.0 % for Arab investors and 12.6% for non-Arab investors. At the sector level, the non-Jordanian ownership in the financial sector was 54.4%, in the services sector was 27.7%, and in the industrial sector was 50.4%.