Trading value on Boursa Kuwait fell 39.5% in October to about KD1.482 billion ($4.564 billion) from about KD2.448 billion ($7.539 billion) in September, Kuwaiti economic consultancy Al-Shall said in its weekly report on Saturday, carried by Al Seyassah.
Average daily trading value in October was about KD70.6 million ($217.4 million), down 36.6% from about KD111.3 million ($324.8 million) in September, the report said.
All of the market’s indexes fell during the month. The Premier Market index lost about 3.0% and the Main Market index about 7.0%, according to Al-Shall. The All-Share index, which combines the two markets, fell about 3.7%, and the Main 50 index dropped about 7.7%.
Total trading value in the first 10 months of 2026, or 202 working days, reached about KD17.131 billion ($52.763 billion), the report said.
The daily average for the period was about KD84.8 million ($261 million). That was 23.9% below the average of about KD111.4 million ($343 million) for the same period of 2025 and 21.2% below the 2025 full-year average of about KD107.6 million ($331.4 million).
The Premier Market accounted for about KD945.4 million ($2.9 billion), or 63.8% of October trading value, and the Main Market for about KD535.6 million ($1.6 billion), or 36.2%.
The Main Market’s share of total trading value in the first 10 months of the year was about 36.1%, down from 44.5% in the same period of 2025, Al-Shall said.
Trading remained concentrated. Half of the listed companies received only 7.8% of trading value since the start of the year, including 50 companies that took about 3.1%, while two companies did not trade at all, according to the report.
Twelve relatively small companies, worth about 3.6% of the bourse’s total market value, drew about 20% of trading value, or about 5.5 times their share of market capitalization, the report said.
