Saudi Stocks Outperform Gulf Bourses as War Risk Pressures Regional Markets

Saudi Arabia’s stock market has held up better than most Gulf bourses as war-risk headlines rattled the region, with the Tadawul All Share Index even posting gains in some sessions while many neighboring exchanges fell. Bloomberg and Reuters reported that local buying and strength in heavyweight banks and energy stocks helped support the index, even as markets in Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain and elsewhere came under pressure. The resilience matters because Saudi Arabia is the GCC’s largest market, so its relative stability has softened—but not eliminated—the broader regional selloff.