Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Hotels & Tourism, Insurance and Real Estate Development sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share lost 1.48%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SE:4210), which rose 9.57% or 7.70 points to trade at 88.20 at the close. The Mediterranean&Gulf Insurance Co (SE:8030) added 5.56% or 0.86 points to end at 16.34 and Northern Region Cement Co (SE:3004) was up 2.91% or 0.27 points to 9.55 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Anb Insurance (SE:8011), which lost 5.43% or 1.37 points to trade at 23.88 in late trade. The Company for Coop. Insurance (SE:8010) declined 5.25% or 3.50 points to end at 63.20 and Al-Tayyar Travel Group Holding Co. (SE:1810) shed 5.19% or 0.98 points to 17.90.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 149 to 34 and 7 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.10% or 0.06 to $61.88 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.25% or 0.18 to hit $71.03 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.11% or 1.35 to trade at $1279.95 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.10% to 4.1964, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7503.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 97.387.