In the first few weeks of April, the Tadawul, the Middle East’s most liquid equity exchange, had returned to form and bucked the downward trend of developed global markets. But until then, 2008 seemed to be the year of recoupling with western markets, rather than decoupling, as far as the Saudi stock market was concerned.
In the first six weeks of the year, the Tadawul, which trades around $3 billion daily, lost almost 20% of its value.
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