Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Transport, Insurance and Agriculture & Food sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share lost 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Nama Chemicals Co. (SE:2210), which rose 5.71% or 1.15 points to trade at 21.30 at the close. Yanbu National Petrochemical Co (SE:2290) added 3.66% or 2.11 points to end at 59.70 and Riyad Bank (SE:1010) was up 2.66% or 0.31 points to 11.98 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Salama Cooperative Insurance Co (SE:8050), which lost 5.89% or 1.32 points to trade at 21.08 in late trade. SABB Takaful (SE:8080) declined 4.07% or 1.23 points to end at 29.00 and Gulf General Cooperative Insurance (SE:8260) shed 3.97% or 0.79 points to 19.10.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 105 to 64 and 9 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.44% or 0.22 to $50.22 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.61% or 0.34 to hit $55.28 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.77% or 10.16 to trade at $1315.04 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.07% to 4.4833, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7504.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 91.68.