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Al-Quds Index continues to increase significantly with the start of July

2025-07-03

 Sahem weekly trading report (29-06)-(03-07)-2025

In the first week of July, Al-Quds Index continued its increasing, to close at the level of 592.77 points; up by 4.50% than the previous week after trading in a relatively wide price range. While most of the blue-chips witnessed a significant increase in their prices amid a relative constantly in the liquidity levels despite executing institutional transactions from time to time on selected shares. On the other hand, the anticipation increases this period to disclose the semi-annual financial data for 2025, which affects the investors’ behavior in the market during the coming period.

Regarding the economic indicators and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS, the overall Producer Price Index (PPI) for Palestine with its base year (2019) reached 236.24 in May 2025, as it sharply increased by 31.61% compared to179.50 in April 2025. The changes of PPI for May 2025 were traced back to changes in prices of the following major activities compared to the previous month: manufacturing by 54.97%, which has a share of 58.92% from total product basket. Agriculture, forestry and fishing by 15.44%, which has a share of 29.94% from total product basket. Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply by 0.29%, which has a share of 8.23% from total product basket. Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities by 0.02%, which has a share of 1.50% from total share product. While, mining and quarrying stood-still with zero change, which has a share of 1.41% from total product basket.

Regarding the economic indicators and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS, the Construction Cost Index (CCI) for residential buildings in the West Bank reached 121.29 with a decrease of 0.15% during May 2025 compared with April 2025 (base year 2013). At the level of major groups, the prices of raw material decreased by 0.27%. While, the prices of rental of equipment increased by 0.14%. At the same time, the prices of the labor costs and wages remained stable during May 2025 compared with the previous month.