Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Media & Publishing, Agriculture & Food and Real Estate Development sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share rose 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Dar Alarkan Real Estate Development (SE:4300), which rose 5.75% or 0.50 points to trade at 9.20 at the close. National Agriculture Marketing Co. (SE:4160) added 5.32% or 1.54 points to end at 30.50 and Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140) was up 5.05% or 0.70 points to 14.56 in late trade.
Biggest losers included National Agriculture Development Co (SE:6010), which lost 2.09% or 0.70 points to trade at 32.75 in late trade. Fitaihi Holding Group (SE:4180) declined 1.85% or 0.23 points to end at 12.18 and AXA Cooperative Insurance Company (SE:8250) shed 1.76% or 0.34 points to 18.98.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 97 to 78 and 6 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 1.10% or 0.65 to $58.30 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.27% or 0.17 to hit $63.64 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.60% or 7.77 to trade at $1295.07 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.18% to 4.4825, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7503.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.22% at 92.52.