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Al-Quds Index in the green zone with growing anticipation for 9M data disclosures

2025-10-16

 Sahem weekly trading report (12-16)-10-2025

With mid- October, Al-Quds Index tried to break-through the 600 points level, to close in the green zone after trading in a relatively narrow range. While with the ending of the war on Gaza, some of the blue-chips with heaviest weights and effects on the index witnessed increases in their prices, while other blue-chips stabilized without any change in their prices than the previous week. However, the anticipation for the 9M 2025 financial disclosures’ month dominated the investment appetite and investors’ behavior. Where, stalling in the place outweighed pursuing any price trend. Despite the similar general trend in the blue-chips’ stocks, but the momentum factors vary among them following the varied growth factors that has been drawn by each alone, and which was extracted by the investor since the beginning of the year, in parallel to the quarterly financial data disclosures. Whereby, the 9M financial data disclosures are one of the important things that boost the growth expected factors in the market.

Regarding the significant news of this week, the listed companies accelerated to determine dates to hold their board of directors’ meetings to discuss and approve the financial data for the first nine months of 2025. In this context, the board of directors BOD of Palestine Investment Bank PIBC held a meeting on 16/10/2025. On the other hand, the BOD of the National Carton Industry Company NCI will be holding a meeting on 19/10/2025. Also, the BOD of both Bank of Palestine BOP and Palestine Industrial Investment Company PIIC will be holding meetings on 23/10/2025. In another context, the BOD of the Vegetable Oil Industries Company VOIC will be holding a meeting on 29/10/2025.

Regarding the economic indicators and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS, the significant decline in consumer goods prices in Gaza Strip during September 2025 led to a sharp decline in the Consumer Price Index in Gaza Strip by 13.48% compared to August 2025. While, the index increased in Jerusalem by 0.89%, and by 0.46% in the West Bank, this led to a decline in the overall Consumer Price Index in Palestine by 8.00%. On the other hand, The Palestinian CPI during September 2025 increased by 17.65% compared with September 2024 (38.29% in Gaza Strip, and by 0.93% in Jerusalem, while it decreased by 2.48% in the West Bank).