The DWX closed 2018 with a small decline as the Syrian stock exchange mostly failed to live to its expectations last year.

Only weeks after buying a sizable stake in one of Syria’s largest banks, Samer Foz has invested in another Sharia-compliant financial institution.

Several companies from the UAE are looking again at the Syrian market and sending delegations to Damascus.

Interest in Syria’s securities exchange declined further last month, while two stocks alone attracted more than half of the limited trading.

The Damascus Securities Exchange continued to attract very few investors in October as the daily value of shares traded did not cross the equivalent of USD 182,000.

The main index of the Damascus Securities Exchange gained slightly last month as the number and value of transactions also increased.

Syrian private sector banks continued to post a modest increase in their main indicators in the first half of this year, as Islamic lenders now represent almost 40 percent of the sector.

This list of tables provides data on the main indicators of Syrian private sector banks as of June 30, 2018.

The DWX gained some 9.63 percent last month, its highest monthly increase since the beginning of the year, mostly thanks to the rise in the price of a single stock.

The main index of the Damascus Securities Exchange declined again last month to close at 5,528.66.

The assets, credits and deposits at the 14 private sector banks in Syria. 

The operating income and profits of Syria's 14 private sector banks in 2017. All numbers are in million Syrian pounds.

The balance sheets and income statements of Syrian banks show an improvement in their performance last year.

Syria’s main stock market index gained again last month amid rising trading volumes.

A Kuwaiti-based company has announced the purchase of a plot of land outside Damascus, in a very rare case of an investment by a Gulf company in Syria since 2011.

The Damascus Securities Exchange ended 2017 on a high note with investors making positive returns for the first time since 2010.

The Damascus Securities Exchange's main index posted in October its second largest monthly increase since the beginning of 2017.

The relative stable situation in vast parts of western Syria have enabled private commercial banks in the first half of this year to post a slight improvement in their main indicators.

This list of tables provides data on the main indicators of Syrian private sector banks as of June 30, 2017.

Updated on July 21, 2017: Syria’s private commercial banks, which saw last year their assets fall to a fraction of what they were in 2010 and now barely breakeven, are unable to finance any meaningful reconstruction drive.

Banque Bemo Saudi Fransi has entered talks to buy a controlling stake in Syria Gulf Bank, in the first such consolidation move since the liberalisation of Syria’s banking sector in 2004.

Following in the steps of two of its competitors, BLOM Bank, Lebanon’s second largest bank by the size of its assets, has deconsolidated its operations in Syria.

The main indicators of the Damascus Securities Exchange witnessed an overall positive performance last year when measured on a nominal basis, although the Syrian bourse remains largely disconnected from the economy at large.

Al-Baraka Bank Syria, an Islamic lender and one of the newest comers to the Syrian banking sector, saw its assets jump 50 percent in the first half of this year.

The value of the shares traded last month in the Damascus Securities Exchange fell to its lowest level since the beginning of the year.

The value of trading and of the main market index of the Damascus Securities Exchange continued to increase markedly in April.

In dollar terms, the assets of Syria’s private sector banks declined by 25 percent on annual basis last year.

February saw an increasing interest by Syrian investors in the Damascus Securities Exchange.

Years after most of its counterparts, one of Europe’s largest commercial banks has just decided to stop all relations with Syria’s banking sector.

The value of trading in the Syrian bourse last week was slightly above 5 million pounds, which at the current exchange rate is equivalent to some USD 13,000.

The value of trading in the Damascus Securities Exchange remained stable this week.

Syria’s stock market index, the DWX, fell in each of this week’s four sessions to close at 1,214.95.

Syria’s stock market index crossed the 1,200 level again in a week that saw only two trading sessions.

The assets of Syria’s private commercial banks increased 17 percent in the first half of this year in Syrian Pound terms.

The DWX remained unchanged last week amid low trading values.

Syria’s main stock market index fell below the 1,200 mark for the first time since mid-July.

Only a quarter of the listed stocks in the Damascus Securities Exchange were traded this week.

Only SYP 7.3 million worth of stocks were traded in the Damascus Securities Exchange last week.

Syria’s stock market index gained more than one percent last week amid low trading volumes.

Last week, Syria’s stock index closed above the 1,200 level for the first time in more than a month, while the value of trading was among the lowest on record.

In the absence of large transactions, the volume of activity at the Syrian stock exchange returned to the lows of the past weeks.

Syria’s DWX stock market index remained below the 1,200 mark for the second week in a row.

Al-Baraka Bank Syria, an Islamic lender, opened on May 28 a branch in Tartous, the bank’s second in less than six months in the coastal area.

There was little to highlight in the Syrian stock exchange last week as trading volumes remained miniscule.

Last week was another uneventful one in the Syrian bourse with the market’s main index sliding again and the volume of transactions remaining very low.

The main index of the Damascus Securities Exchange gained 0.29 percent last week to close at 1,211.44.

Only a quarter of the listed stocks in the Damascus Exchange were traded last week.

Syria’s stock market index continued its slow and steady decline.

Trading at the Damascus Securities Exchange remained subdued last week and dominated by four stocks.