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Al-Quds Index in the red zone with the approaching end of January

2026-01-29

 Sahem weekly trading report (25-29)-01-2026

With the approaching end of January and the expectations’ variation among investors regarding the listed companies’ profits of the year 2025 and their recommendations regarding distributing dividends for the investors, Al-Quds Index traded at 630.09 points; declining by 2.20% than the previous week after trading in a relatively narrow range. On the other hand, Palestine Stock Exchange PEX lacked any trading momentum and witnessed absence of executing institutional transactions that may increase the trading value in the market from time to time. However, the anticipation increases coinciding with the approaching end of the legal period granted by the PEX to the listed companies to disclose their preliminary annual financial data on February 15th. Whereby, the following week is expected to witness a momentum in this regard.

Regarding the economic indicators and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS, exports increased in November, 2025 by 30% compared to November, 2024 and reached $184.4 million.  Also, imports increased in November, 2025 by 39% compared to November, 2024 and reached $703.8 million. While the trade balance, which represents the difference between exports and imports, showed an increase in trade deficit by 43% in November, 2025 compared to November, 2024 and reached $519.4 million.

Regarding the economic indicators and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS as well, the overall Producer Price Index PPI in Palestine with its base year 2019 reached 199.93 in 2025, which indicates a sharp increase by 32.90% compared to 2024. Prices of PPI for 2025 sharply increased due to the increase in the prices of goods and services in the following major activities: agriculture, forestry and fishing activities by 59.25%, manufacturing activities by 12.18%, and electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply activities by 4.18%. While, water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities decreased by 0.80%, and mining and quarrying activities slightly decreased by 0.07% in 2025 compared to 2024. Moreover, the prices of locally consumed products sharply increased by 35.22% and the prices of local exported products increased by 3.89%.