Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were higher at the close on Sunday, as gains in the Media & Publishing, Building & Construction and Retail sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share gained 0.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140), which rose 10.00% or 23.60 points to trade at 259.60 at the close. Saudi Real Estate Co. (SE:4020) added 9.92% or 1.40 points to end at 15.52 and Kingdom Holding Company (SE:4280) was up 4.63% or 0.41 points to 9.26 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Saudi Enaya Cooperative Insurance (SE:8311), which lost 2.41% or 0.65 points to trade at 26.35 in late trade. Saudi Industrial Services Co. (SE:2190) declined 2.09% or 0.30 points to end at 14.06 and Saudi Arabian Cooperative Insurance (SE:8100) shed 1.71% or 0.26 points to 14.94.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 99 to 66 and 17 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to $69.95 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.55% or 0.41 to hit $74.86 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.39% or 4.80 to trade at $1241.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.13% to 4.3822, while USD/SAR fell 0.00% to 3.7502.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 94.44.