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muriel_volestrangler

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8. It's true the Saudi stock market was about the only one in the world that went up during the bombing

Reply to in2herbs (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 23, 2026, 06:25 PM

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(presumably because of their pipeline to the Red Sea), but since that's calmed down, and traders seem to think the Gulf will reopen sometime reasonably soon, it has drifted down again.

https://tradingeconomics.com/saudi-arabia/stock-market

10480 on March 1st; peaked at 11597 on April 15th. Now back to 11110.

But I'd agree it's more likely that they just see too much talk of "sportswashing" and "artwashing", and are fed up that the world isn't showing love for a totalitarian regime when it provides bread and circuses.

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