Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Insurance, Agriculture & Food and Real Estate Development sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share fell 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were National Industrialization Co (SE:2060), which rose 9.94% or 1.61 points to trade at 17.80 at the close. The Mediterranean&Gulf Insurance Co (SE:8030) added 9.90% or 2.27 points to end at 25.20 and Middle East Paper Co (SE:1202) was up 5.03% or 1.21 points to 25.25 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Aseer Trading Tourism&Manufacturing (SE:4080), which lost 10.00% or 1.24 points to trade at 11.16 in late trade. The Company for Coop. Insurance (SE:8010) declined 4.75% or 3.42 points to end at 68.60 and Saudi Arabia Refineries Co. (SE:2030) shed 3.80% or 1.37 points to 34.65.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 112 to 66 and 5 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.42% or 0.27 to $63.64 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.27% or 0.18 to hit $67.11 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.19% or 2.50 to trade at $1330.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.11% to 4.6147, while USD/SAR rose 0.02% to 3.7513.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.19% at 89.94.