Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Media & Publishing, Retail and Hotels & Tourism sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share added 0.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140), which rose 9.96% or 15.16 points to trade at 167.40 at the close. United Electronics Company (SE:4003) added 5.94% or 2.97 points to end at 53.00 and Northern Region Cement Co (SE:3004) was up 4.31% or 0.44 points to 10.66 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Etihad Etisalat Co (SE:7020), which lost 7.08% or 1.13 points to trade at 14.84 in late trade. Malath Cooperative Insurance Co (SE:8020) declined 4.21% or 0.77 points to end at 17.54 and Saudi Enaya Cooperative Insurance (SE:8311) shed 3.01% or 0.54 points to 17.40.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 98 to 76 and 13 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 0.93% or 0.55 to $58.64 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.54% or 0.34 to hit $62.38 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.22% or 2.90 to trade at $1333.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.01% to 4.6311, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7506.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 89.57.