Methodology

How TalonEdge KSA is built, updated November 12, 2026

1. What We Publish, And When

The Saudi market trades Sunday through Thursday and closes before New York opens. "While You Slept," our daily brief, is published on this site by mid-morning US time on every Saudi trading day. The Weekly Recap, a longer review, is published on Fridays. Everything is free and requires no login.

2. Index Data

All index figures (TASI and Nomu) are official end-of-day closes from the Saudi Exchange, collected after each session. Deeper history was seeded once from the exchange's free public Historical Reports tool, which caps free history at roughly six months; the series grows one official session at a time thereafter. We do not use paid feeds or data vendors whose terms restrict redistribution.

Sukuk and bond figures on the Fixed Income Market page come from the Saudi Exchange's own Sukuk and Bond Market Watch, dated to the session shown, with coupons, maturities, yields and issuance amounts outstanding exactly as the exchange publishes them. Group totals and shares on that page are our arithmetic on the exchange's column, and corporate ownership notes come from the issuer's own disclosures.

3. Session Coverage

We do not publish movers tables. Each session we identify the handful of stocks that carried the story and describe them in prose in the brief, with the percentage change taken from the official close. Percentage changes are computed from official closing prices only, never intraday values.

4. News, IPOs, And Graduations

Market events, IPO announcements, and Nomu-to-TASI graduations come from the issuer announcements published by the Saudi Exchange itself, with the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) used for official statements and economic releases. Every filing we report links to the exchange record it came from. We do not run rumors or unconfirmed reports.

5. Economic Data

Macroeconomic figures come from official bodies: GASTAT, SAMA, the Ministry of Finance (MoF), NDMC, MEP, and official press releases, many of them as published by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), supplemented by public data platforms such as DataSaudi. Oil settlement prices are taken from SPA's daily market reports rather than from third-party aggregators. Each figure is cited and dated. We never rely on a single research house for economic data, and we do not republish subscription-gated research.

6. Currency

The Saudi riyal is pegged to the US dollar at SAR 3.75 = $1, so all USD conversions use that fixed rate. We do not apply floating exchange rates to riyal-denominated figures.

7. Editorial Rules

• Neutral, US-investor voice: we describe what happened, plainly.
• No invented causality: we report moves and, separately, the news that accompanied them; we do not assert causes the sources do not state.
• No predictions, no recommendations, no hype: we are not brokers or advisers and we do not tell you what to buy.
• Data as of the cited date: every figure is tied to the trading day or release it came from.
• Corrections: when an official figure is revised, the site reflects the latest official value.
• How the copy is produced: copy is drafted with AI assistance and published only after human review, with every figure checked against the primary source before it goes live, and the website owner is accountable for what appears.

8. Independence

Third-party code and fonts redistributed with this site are listed with their licences in licenses.txt (Chart.js under the MIT License, IBM Plex under the SIL Open Font License 1.1). Their notices are reproduced there in full.

TalonEdge KSA is independent and not affiliated with the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul), the Capital Market Authority, PIF, SAMA, any Saudi government entity, or any Saudi company, public or private. We have no positions to disclose and no business relationships with listed companies.