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19 March 2024

Dubai Financial Market to add trading-at-last session

Dubai Financial Market (DFM) on Monday announced that it plans to implement an enhanced pre-closing session arrangement as well as Trading At Last session, TAL, as of June 4. (Supplied)

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By Reuters

Dubai Financial Market will add a five-minute ‘trading-at-last session’ to its daily routine as it adjusts the pre-closing session next month, it said on Monday.

The pre-closing session, which now runs for 10 minutes starting at 1350 local time (0950 GMT), will begin at 1345 from June 4 and have a more clearly defined time frame for placing and cancelling orders.

The new trading-at-last session will start 20 seconds after 1355, allowing investors to place orders based on the already calculated closing prices of securities.

A similar phase is used by pan-European stock exchange Euronext. Dubai Financial Market said it was making the changes after consulting market participants about how to adopt international best practices.