On the sidelines of the Equities and Financial Investment Exhibition and Forum, Mohammed Al-Shehri, Chairman of Kingdom International Group, the organizer of the exhibition, said that the exhibition aims to anticipate the future of the Saudi stock market, as it awaits the entry of foreign investments in it in accordance with specific controls and conditions in the middle of this year,

The exhibition also comes to highlight many of the challenges facing the market; most notably the levels of disclosure and transparency, violent speculation, lack of awareness to read the variables as well as the issues related to the issuance of bonds and various debt instruments from the legislative and regulatory aspects.

<Al-Shehri noted that the stock market has gone through many transformations over the past fifteen years, the most prominent features of which were the limited number of investors from the 1990s until 2003, and in the period from 2004 to 2006 the market witnessed a great leap that led to its rise to 22 thousand points, then collapsed to lose more than half of its market value, as a result of violent speculation and lack of awareness, and from 2006 to 2012 the market remained stagnant in strenuous attempts to recover, and in the last two years the market began to recover, but very slowly.