Dubai Financial Market, the regional exchange to public and the Islamic financial market globally, reports the leap in investor base for 2008. The result demonstrates the jump of 26.48% during 2008 to 535,563 in 2008 end.
According to DFM statistics UAE investors accounted for 62.79% of the total numbers of investors last year, as UAE investors numbers, increased from 267,046 in 2007 to 336,304 in 2008. DFM issued 69,258 new investor numbers for UAE nationals in 2008.
The Omanis came second with 8435 new investor numbers, bringing the total numbers to 37,860 in number in 2008 compared to 29,425 in 2007. Indians got 6568 new investor numbers in 2008, bringing the total to 23,329 in 2008 compared to 16,761 in 2007.
Kuwait investors ranked in the fourth place by getting 4329 new investor numbers in 2008, increasing the total to 12,654 compared to 8325 in 2007, while Saudi investors got 2937 new numbers in 2008 to 39,285 in 2008 compared to 36,348 in 2007.
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