TASI, the Saudi Stock Exchange Main Index, closed at 11,778.08 points on Monday, March 24, 2025, up 83.31 points on the day, with a total trading value of SAR4.2 billion, according to the Saudi Press Agency’s daily economic bulletin.
SPA reported that the volume of traded shares reached 229 million. Of the companies tracked in the session, 123 recorded gains while 109 closed lower. The split between advancers and decliners was therefore close, even as the headline index finished in positive territory. Does a session where gainers only narrowly outnumber losers really tell you where the market is heading next?
The parallel market moved as well. The Saudi Parallel Market Index, NOMU, closed 75.17 points higher at 30,610.63 points. Trading in NOMU reached SAR36 million, with 2.5 million shares exchanged. That is a far smaller pool of activity than the main market, as the parallel market’s design implies. How much weight should a SAR36 million session carry when the main market turned over SAR4.2 billion on the same day?
Put the two together and the picture is a main market that added 83.31 points to reach 11,778.08, and a parallel market that added 75.17 points to reach 30,610.63. Both closed higher. Both figures come from the same SPA economic bulletin, published the same evening. If both indices rise on the same day, is that a broad signal or just two separate numbers that happen to point the same way?
The trading value figure of SAR4.2 billion is the money that changed hands across the main index session. The share volume figure of 229 million is the number of shares that moved. Those are two different measures, and they do not have to move together. A high share count with a lower trading value implies one mix of prices; a lower share count with a higher value implies another. Which of the two numbers do you watch first when you want to know how heavy a session really was?
Then there is the breadth count: 123 companies up, 109 down. That is 232 companies accounted for in the gainers-and-losers tally. The index itself still finished higher by 83.31 points. Breadth and index level can diverge, and on this session the gainers held the edge. Would you rather see a wider margin between gainers and losers, or is a 123-to-109 split enough to call the day clearly positive?
NOMU’s 2.5 million shares and SAR36 million in trading value sit alongside its 75.17-point gain to 30,610.63. The parallel market index level is more than double the main index level in raw points, but the two indices are built differently and their point values are not comparable in any direct way. Does a bigger point number on one index ever actually mean more than a smaller point number on another?
The SPA bulletin is a daily economic record. It gives the closing levels, the point changes, the trading values, the share volumes, and the count of companies that gained or fell. It does not explain why the market moved the way it did. There is no attribution in the source to oil prices, earnings, regional news, or any other driver. Should a daily market report try to explain the move, or is the number itself the whole story?
Timing matters here too. SPA stamped the bulletin at 19:10 local time, 16:10 GMT, on March 24, 2025, with the reference 0035. That is an evening close-of-market record from Riyadh. Anyone reading it the next morning is reading a snapshot of the previous session, not a live quote. How much does it change your reading of a market number to know it was fixed at a specific hour and never revised in the text?
The main index figure, 11,778.08, is stated to two decimal places. The gain, 83.31 points, is stated to two decimal places. NOMU’s close, 30,610.63, and its gain, 75.17 points, are stated the same way. The trading values are rounded to SAR4.2 billion and SAR36 million. The share volumes are given as 229 million and 2.5 million. That is the full set of numbers SPA published. Do you trust a market summary more when it gives you exact index points but rounded money figures?
What the source does not include is any sector breakdown, any list of the specific companies that gained or fell, any statement on foreign or institutional participation, and any forward-looking comment from an exchange official or analyst. It also does not give a previous-day comparison beyond the point change itself. The bulletin is a close-of-session record and nothing more. Would a sector-by-sector split make the 123-to-109 breadth figure more useful to you, or would it just be more numbers to sort through?
For readers tracking the Saudi market day by day, the value of a bulletin like this is consistency. The same fields appear: index level, point change, trading value, share volume, gainers, losers. Over time those fields can be lined up against each other. On March 24, 2025, the main index stood at 11,778.08 after an 83.31-point rise, on SAR4.2 billion of trading and 229 million shares, with 123 gainers against 109 decliners. NOMU stood at 30,610.63 after a 75.17-point rise, on SAR36 million of trading and 2.5 million shares. Those are the facts SPA put on the record. Which one would you circle first?
What were the closing levels of TASI and NOMU on March 24, 2025? According to the Saudi Press Agency’s daily economic bulletin, the Saudi Stock Exchange Main Index, TASI, closed at 11,778.08 points, up 83.31 points on the day. The Saudi Parallel Market Index, NOMU, closed at 30,610.63 points, up 75.17 points. Both indices finished the session higher. SPA published the figures at 19:10 local time, 16:10 GMT, on March 24, 2025, under reference 0035. The bulletin gives closing levels and point changes for both markets but no explanation of what drove the moves.
How much trading value and share volume did the main market record? SPA reported a total trading value of SAR4.2 billion on the main index, with the volume of traded shares reaching 229 million. Those are two separate measures: trading value is the money that changed hands, while share volume is the number of shares exchanged. The bulletin does not break the trading value down by sector or by company. It also does not state how the session compared with the previous day beyond the 83.31-point gain in the index itself. The figures come from the same daily economic bulletin that carried the closing levels.
How many companies gained and how many fell in the session? The SPA bulletin states that 123 companies recorded gains while 109 closed lower, a tally of 232 companies in total. The gainers therefore held a narrow edge over the decliners, even as the headline index finished 83.31 points higher at 11,778.08. The source does not name the individual companies that gained or fell, nor does it provide a sector breakdown of the breadth count. It also does not say how the 123-to-109 split compared with the previous session’s split. Only the aggregate counts were published.
What did NOMU trading look like on the same day? Trading in the Saudi Parallel Market Index, NOMU, reached SAR36 million, with 2.5 million shares exchanged, according to SPA. The index closed 75.17 points higher at 30,610.63 points. That activity is far smaller than the main market’s SAR4.2 billion in trading value and 229 million shares. The parallel market’s index level in raw points is higher than the main index level, but the two indices are constructed differently, so their point values are not directly comparable. SPA published both sets of figures in the same daily economic bulletin.
Does the SPA bulletin explain why the market moved? No. The bulletin is a close-of-session record. It gives the index levels, point changes, trading values, share volumes, and the count of gaining and falling companies. It contains no attribution to oil prices, earnings, regional developments, or any other driver, and no comment from an exchange official or analyst. It also does not include a sector breakdown or a list of individual movers. SPA stamped the report at 19:10 local time, 16:10 GMT, on March 24, 2025, and issued it under reference 0035.