Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Industrial Investment, Financial Services and Hotels & Tourism sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share lost 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were The Company for Coop. Insurance (SE:8010), which rose 9.77% or 8.90 points to trade at 100.00 at the close. The Mediterranean&Gulf Insurance Co (SE:8030) added 9.34% or 2.95 points to end at 34.55 and Al-Rajhi Cooperative Insurance (SE:8230) was up 6.76% or 3.63 points to 57.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Saudi Fisheries Co. (SE:6050), which lost 2.91% or 0.93 points to trade at 31.05 in late trade. Al Hokair Group (SE:1820) declined 2.51% or 0.81 points to end at 31.50 and Red Sea Housing Services Company (SE:4230) shed 2.05% or 0.43 points to 20.54.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 90 to 77 and 6 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 0.48% or 0.25 to $52.13 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $57.93 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.13% or 14.65 to trade at $1287.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.57% to 4.3960, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7504.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.61% at 93.38.