Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Real Estate Development, Multi Investment and Retail sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share lost 0.62%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were AL JOUF CEMENT COMPANY (SE:3091), which rose 5.90% or 0.51 points to trade at 9.16 at the close. Anaam International Holding Group (SE:4061) added 5.39% or 0.77 points to end at 15.06 and Solidarity Saudi Takaful Co (SE:8290) was up 5.39% or 1.12 points to 21.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dar Alarkan Real Estate Development (SE:4300), which lost 9.94% or 1.39 points to trade at 12.60 in late trade. Methanol Chemicals Company (SE:2001) declined 8.19% or 0.77 points to end at 8.63 and Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company (SE:2350) shed 6.47% or 0.69 points to 9.97.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 118 to 62 and 3 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.33% or 0.19 to $57.55 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.43% or 0.27 to hit $63.67 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.26% or 3.30 to trade at $1251.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.04% to 4.4136, while USD/SAR fell 0.20% to 3.7420.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 93.76.