Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Petrochemicals, Financial Services and Insurance sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share declined 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were National Petrochemical Company (SE:2002), which rose 8.09% or 1.96 points to trade at 26.20 at the close. United Electronics Company (SE:4003) added 6.94% or 4.37 points to end at 67.30 and Dur Hospitality (SE:4010) was up 5.77% or 1.14 points to 20.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Al Rajhi Bank (SE:1120), which lost 2.17% or 1.66 points to trade at 74.90 in late trade. Saudi United Cooperative Insurance (SE:8060) declined 2.08% or 0.72 points to end at 33.85 and Banque Saudi Fransi (SE:1050) shed 1.81% or 0.55 points to 29.90.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 101 to 77 and 8 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 0.58% or 0.35 to $61.06 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 0.34% or 0.22 to hit $64.86 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.22% or 2.90 to trade at $1324.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.13% to 4.6405, while USD/SAR rose 0.02% to 3.7509.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 89.76.