The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors at the Amman Stock exchange (ASE) since the beginning of the year until the end of June 2016 was JD324.7 million, representing 27.2% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD183.3 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments showed an increase of JD141.4 million, compared to an increase by JD8.5 million for the same period of 2015.
The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors at the ASE during June 2016 was JD35.2 million, representing 25.3% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD38.3 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments during June 2016 showed a decrease by JD3.1 million, compared with a decrease by JD6.9 million during the same month of 2015.
Arab investors purchases since the beginning of the year until the end of June 2016 were JD299.2 million, or 92.1% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanian investors, while the value of non-Arab investors purchases amounted to JD25.5 million, constituting 7.9% of the total purchases. Arab investors sales amounted to JD154.3 million, 84.1% of non-Jordanian investors total sales, while the value of non-Arab investors sales amounted to JD29.1 million, representing 15.9% of the total sales by non-Jordanian investors.
Non-Jordanian inventors' ownership in companies listed at the ASE by end of June 2016 represented 48.9% of the total market value, 38.1% for Arab investors and 10.8% for non-Arab investors. At the sector level, the non-Jordanian ownership in the financial sector was 55.7%, in the services sector was 22.1%, and in the industrial sector was 49.2%.