Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Hotels & Tourism, Insurance and Agriculture & Food sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share fell 0.35%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Tihama Advertising&Public Relations (SE:4070), which rose 8.56% or 3.70 points to trade at 46.90 at the close. Emaar The Economic City (SE:4220) added 4.17% or 0.39 points to end at 9.74 and Arabia Insurance Cooperative Co (SE:8160) was up 3.64% or 0.62 points to 17.66 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Al Yamamah Steel Industries Co (SE:1304), which lost 4.07% or 0.62 points to trade at 14.62 in late trade. Al-Tayyar Travel Group Holding Co. (SE:1810) declined 3.67% or 0.84 points to end at 22.04 and United Cooperative Assurance Co (SE:8190) shed 2.88% or 0.36 points to 12.14.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 114 to 64 and 15 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 0.53% or 0.28 to $52.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 0.11% or 0.07 to hit $62.17 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.62% or 8.15 to trade at $1310.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.13% to 4.2412, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7502.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 96.588.