Analyzing the Performance of the Palestine Stock Exchange and Enhancing its Role in Attracting Foreign Investments

The study aimed to analyze the performance of the Palestine Stock Exchange ‎and its role in attracting ‎foreign investments. The study used the descriptive ‎and analytical approach. The study reached a set of ‎recommendations, the ‎most important of which is the necessity to provide the investment ‎environment ‎by providing the legislative, economic, legal, and security ‎environments, such as the companies' law, ‎competition, etc. As well as ‎providing sound economic and financial policies to achieve long-term ‎‎development by encouraging and motivating companies that not listed on the ‎Palestine Stock Exchange ‎to list their shares. That is to increase market depth and ‎enhance its confidence although the law forces ‎them to do so. The ‎study also found a slight development in its performance despite achieving ‎high ‎returns, as the profitability rate was recorded at 300% in the year 2009, ‎and the market value and trading ‎volume increased by more than 45%. As for ‎the Jerusalem index, it has witnessed an increase since 2004. ‎It fluctuated ‎slightly after 2004. ‎