Boursa
Kuwait confirms its support  to the
decisions and instructions made by the Council of Ministers  and Health Ministry in light of the
circumstances the country is going through, and would like to note that the
bourse is considered one of the most important economic facilities that should
operate regularly to serve traders just like all bourses around the world that are
still trading and did not stop even while COVID-19 is spreading.

Boursa
Kuwait justifies its support for continuing trading to several considerations ,
most important of which:

Safety
of traders and employees :

Boursa
Kuwait considers the safety of traders, workers and their families a top
priority, so it took several  precautionary
and preventive decisions and steps to safeguard their health in a way that
agrees with the instructions of the health ministry, they are:

• Closing the
  bourse building for the public, and carry out the trading service online and
  call the broker by phone.
• Continually
  sterilizing the Kuwait Bourse building to ensure a healthy working environment
  for all.
• Reduce the
  number of workers at the bourse to a minimum in a way that provides operating
  requirements.
• Prevent workers
  at Boursa Kuwait or brokering companies who meet conditions of house quarantine
  from working.
• Commit brokering
  companies to provide sterilizers for workers
• Follow all
  preventive and precautionary instructions of health ministry while following them
  daily for any developments and updates.

Rights of traders and shareholders

• Boursa Kuwait
  seeks to protect the rights of traders and shareholders, particularly the small
  ones to maintain their rights in trading by buying or selling according to what
  they see in investment opportunities.
• The bourse
  confirms that there are dues to all shareholders with their various shares and
  categories from the companies’ profits distributions that will be affected
  adversely if the bourse stops.
• There are
  suspended funds regarding the trading of the last three working days, and they
  belong to shareholders of various shares and categories and the stopping of the
  bourse will lead to not receiving their financial rights which will stop their
  work and negatively affect their commitments.