Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Building & Construction, Real Estate Development and Agriculture & Food sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share gained 0.82%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Makkah Construction&Development Co (SE:4100), which rose 9.86% or 6.40 points to trade at 71.30 at the close. Fawaz Abdulaziz AlHokair Company (SE:4240) added 6.11% or 1.82 points to end at 31.60 and Fitaihi Holding Group (SE:4180) was up 5.89% or 0.70 points to 12.58 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Saudi Arabia Refineries Co. (SE:2030), which lost 2.34% or 0.72 points to trade at 30.00 in late trade. Alujain Corporation (SE:2170) declined 2.00% or 0.38 points to end at 18.66 and Electrical Industries Co (SE:1303) shed 1.74% or 0.34 points to 19.20.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 152 to 24 and 5 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.07% or 0.04 to $57.98 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.30% or 0.19 to hit $63.13 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.03% or 0.40 to trade at $1292.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.23% to 4.4433, while USD/SAR rose 0.00% to 3.7503.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.13% at 93.03.