Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Financial Services, Petrochemicals and Cement sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share declined 3.88%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140), which rose 9.98% or 5.20 points to trade at 57.30 at the close. Al Baha Investment and Development Company SJSC (SE:4130) added 9.90% or 1.54 points to end at 17.10 and Saudi Paper Manufacturing Co. (SE:2300) was up 5.05% or 0.60 points to 12.48 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Al Alamiya Cooperative Insurance (SE:8280), which lost 8.61% or 3.10 points to trade at 32.90 in late trade. Saudi Arabian Mining Company (SE:1211) declined 7.25% or 3.70 points to end at 47.30 and Arab National Bank (SE:1080) shed 6.69% or 2.15 points to 30.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 173 to 11 and 1 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 1.30% or 0.95 to $72.22 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 1.44% or 1.20 to hit $81.89 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 1.64% or 19.60 to trade at $1213.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.46% to 4.3401, while USD/SAR rose 0.02% to 3.7515.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.36% at 94.88.