Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Hotels & Tourism, Petrochemicals and Building & Construction sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share gained 0.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Arabia Refineries Co. (SE:2030), which rose 9.87% or 3.18 points to trade at 35.40 at the close. Nama Chemicals Co. (SE:2210) added 5.00% or 0.81 points to end at 17.00 and Saudi Industrial Services Co. (SE:2190) was up 4.84% or 0.56 points to 12.14 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140), which lost 9.96% or 26.80 points to trade at 242.40 in late trade. The Mediterranean&Gulf Insurance Co (SE:8030) declined 3.51% or 0.83 points to end at 22.82 and Saudi Fisheries Co. (SE:6050) shed 3.26% or 1.00 points to 29.70.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 91 to 85 and 8 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.24% or 0.15 to $61.53 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.06% or 0.04 to hit $65.38 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.47% or 6.30 to trade at $1325.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.08% to 4.6038, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7504.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 90.01.