Saudi stock exchange ready to handle Aramco listing: CEO

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Wed, 02 May 2018 - 09:31 GMT

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A Saudi Aramco employee sits in the area of its stand at the Middle East Petrotech 2016, an exhibition and conference for the refining and petrochemical industries, in Manama, Bahrain, September 27, 2016. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo

A Saudi Aramco employee sits in the area of its stand at the Middle East Petrotech 2016, an exhibition and conference for the refining and petrochemical industries, in Manama, Bahrain, September 27, 2016. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo

RIYADH - 2 May 2018: Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange (Tadawul) is ready from a regulatory and technical point of view to handle a listing of Saudi oil giant Aramco, the chief executive said on Wednesday.

The government has said it plans to sell about 5 percent of Aramco in late 2018 or early 2019, hoping to raise some $100 billion or more in what is likely to be the world’s biggest initial public offer.

The Tadawul is prepared to take steps to ensure the Aramco weighting in the index would not be too big, Khalid al-Hussan said at a business conference in Riyadh. He added that steps in that direction might include imposing an “index cap”.

Saudi officials have said that in addition to Riyadh, Aramco may list on one or more foreign markets.

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