Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms & IT, Financial Services and Energy & Utilities sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share declined 0.49%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140), which rose 9.98% or 12.20 points to trade at 134.40 at the close. Saudi Company for Hardware (SE:4008) added 9.97% or 7.10 points to end at 78.30 and Allianz Saudi Fransi Cooperative Insurance Company (SE:8040) was up 9.95% or 2.10 points to 23.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nama Chemicals Co. (SE:2210), which lost 3.97% or 1.00 points to trade at 24.20 in late trade. Samba Financial Group (SE:1090) declined 2.60% or 0.80 points to end at 30.00 and Saudi Ceramic Co. (SE:2040) shed 2.38% or 0.50 points to 20.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 121 to 53 and 11 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.99% or 0.66 to $67.09 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 0.58% or 0.44 to hit $76.88 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.02% or 0.30 to trade at $1233.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.63% to 4.2770, while USD/SAR fell 0.03% to 3.7508.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 96.14.