Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Media & Publishing, Petrochemicals and Real Estate Development sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share declined 1.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Kingdom Holding Company (SE:4280), which rose 5.91% or 1.20 points to trade at 21.50 at the close. Tourism Enterprise Co. (SE:4170) added 3.57% or 1.74 points to end at 50.50 and Allied Cooperative Insurance Group (SE:8150) was up 2.97% or 1.10 points to 38.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Saudi Indian Company Insurance (SE:8110), which lost 7.11% or 1.45 points to trade at 18.95 in late trade. Al Sorayai Trading&Industrial Group (SE:1213) declined 4.29% or 0.94 points to end at 20.95 and Food Products Co. (SE:2100) shed 4.13% or 1.63 points to 37.80.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 145 to 18 on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.02% or 0.01 to $59.38 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.71% or 0.47 to hit $65.69 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 0.02% or 0.20 to trade at $1189.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.49% to 4.1845, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7500.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.22% at 95.11.