Economic updates
Our in-depth, independent reports cover the macroeconomic environment, the Saudi government’s annual budget, and Saudi Arabia’s monetary and financial developments, labor market, and inflation.
Seasonality and the Saudi stock market
All economies have seasonal trends, but for Saudi Arabia these trends are more pronounced than for most other global economies. In this report, we examine quarterly earnings for each of the 15 sectors of the market as well as quarterly real GDP growth rate to determine seasonal trends.