Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Real Estate Development, Petrochemicals and Industrial Investment sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share gained 0.46% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Makkah Construction&Development Co (SE:4100), which rose 8.68% or 6.43 points to trade at 80.50 at the close. Knowledge Economic City (SE:4310) added 5.47% or 0.62 points to end at 11.96 and Astra Industrial Group (SE:1212) was up 4.64% or 0.71 points to 16.02 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Southern Province Cement Co. (SE:3050), which lost 2.53% or 1.11 points to trade at 42.70 in late trade. Middle East Paper Co (SE:1202) declined 2.30% or 0.47 points to end at 19.98 and Arriyadh Development Co. (SE:4150) shed 1.55% or 0.28 points to 17.80.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 125 to 50 and 8 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.84% or 0.48 to $57.78 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 1.17% or 0.73 to hit $63.26 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.17% or 2.20 to trade at $1279.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.01% to 4.4429, while USD/SAR fell 0.02% to 3.7498.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 93.24.