Middle East & Africa · AED

United Arab Emirates stock market historical data

57 listings across DFM. Daily history back to first listing, minute bars from capture forward, one page per symbol.

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DFM trading day, Monday to Friday

10:00 to 15:00 GST06:00 to 11:00 UTC

DFMGI, priced in AED, settling T+2.

2000
Founded in Dubai
70
Listed companies
57
Symbol pages on DataCedar

United Arab Emirates key facts

  • United Arab Emirates's stock market trades on DFM, priced in AED; its headline indices are DFMGI.
  • Dubai Financial Market, founded 2000 in Dubai, trades 10:00 to 15:00 GST (pre open from 09:30), Monday to Friday, regulated by Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA).
  • DataCedar covers 57 United Arab Emirates listings with a price history page and an API call each.
  • Daily bars run back to each symbol's first sourced session; minute bars run from the day capture began for the symbol and are never backfilled.

About DFM

Full name
Dubai Financial Market
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Founded
2000
Regulator
Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA)
Trading hours
10:00 to 15:00 GST (pre open from 09:30)
Trading days
Monday to Friday
Time zone
Asia/Dubai
Currency
AED
Settlement
T+2
Ticker convention
Letter codes (EMAAR, DIB, DEWA, SALIK)
Headline indices
DFMGI
Listed
about 70 listed companies (2025)
Market capitalisation
about USD 250 billion (2025)
  • Itself listed on its own market since 2007; the Abu Dhabi exchange (ADX) is the UAE's other venue.
  • The DFM General Index (DFMGI) is the benchmark; Emaar and the banks dominate it.
  • The UAE moved its weekend to Saturday and Sunday in 2022, so the market trades Monday to Friday.
  • DFM publishes daily bulletins; historical data is licensed through its data services.

About United Arab Emirates market data on DataCedar

United Arab Emirates trades on DFM, priced in AED, and its headline indices are DFMGI. DataCedar stores one daily bar per trading session for every listing, back to the first session it can source, and one minute bar per trading minute from the day capture begins for that symbol, all under one schema and one API.

Every one of the 57 listings has a page with its returns, records and year by year table; pages with enough traded history are in the sitemap, the rest are reachable from the A to Z lists. Tell us which symbols you need; requests move the queue. See pricing and every exchange.

United Arab Emirates stock data by API

One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange: timeframe 1Min to 1Day, adjustment raw or all, start and end. See the bars endpoint.

curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/AIRARABIA/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

ExchangesUnited Arab Emirates exchanges and how to get the data

Each exchange has its own page: trading hours, ticker convention, indices, and the symbols A to Z once it is live.

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