Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Media & Publishing, Hotels & Tourism and Financial Services sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share added 1.22%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140), which rose 9.92% or 16.60 points to trade at 184.00 at the close. Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SE:4210) added 7.50% or 5.53 points to end at 79.30 and Tourism Enterprise Co. (SE:4170) was up 6.78% or 2.07 points to 32.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Alinma Tokio Marine Co (SE:8312), which lost 3.35% or 0.83 points to trade at 23.98 in late trade. Etihad Etisalat Co (SE:7020) declined 2.28% or 0.34 points to end at 14.54 and Trade Union Cooperative Insurance (SE:8170) shed 1.42% or 0.33 points to 22.84.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 140 to 40 and 7 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 0.18% or 0.11 to $60.49 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.65% or 0.42 to hit $63.94 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.21% or 2.90 to trade at $1355.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.34% to 4.6849, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7501.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.35% at 88.60.