Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Industrial Investment, Media & Publishing and Real Estate Development sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share lost 0.36%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Amana Cooperative Insurance Co (SE:8310), which rose 9.29% or 2.04 points to trade at 24.00 at the close. Al-Ahlia Insurance Company (SE:8140) added 4.96% or 0.56 points to end at 11.86 and Gulf Union Cooperative Insurance (SE:8120) was up 4.87% or 0.68 points to 14.64 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Saudi Fisheries Co. (SE:6050), which lost 8.81% or 6.90 points to trade at 71.40 in late trade. Saudi Industrial Investment Group (SE:2250) declined 3.50% or 0.80 points to end at 22.08 and Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140) shed 3.28% or 2.90 points to 85.60.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 103 to 66 and 20 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 1.13% or 0.51 to $45.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 1.79% or 0.95 to hit $54.16 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.01% or 0.10 to trade at $1284.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.39% to 4.3198, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7513.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 95.700.