The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) announces extending the Closing Auction session for a total duration of 20 minutes (instead of 10 minutes), and the Trade at Last session for a total duration of 20 minutes (instead of 10 minutes). Accordingly, the Closing Auction session will start from 3:00 p.m. until 3:20 p.m. AST, and the Trade at Last session will start from 3:20 p.m. until 3:40 p.m. AST on Thursday 19/9/2019 only.
The one-day extensions come ahead of the fourth tranche inclusion in FTSE Russell and the second and final tranche inclusion in S&P Dow Jones as an Emerging Market starting on Monday 23/9/2019 based on the closing prices of Thursday 19/9/2019 with an inclusion factor of 25% in FTSE Russel and 50% in S&P Dow Jones.