Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Media & Publishing, Agriculture & Food and Real Estate Development sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share gained 0.08%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Dar Alarkan Real Estate Development (SE:4300), which rose 5.75% or 0.50 points to trade at 9.20 at the close. Meanwhile, National Agriculture Marketing Co. (SE:4160) added 5.32% or 1.54 points to end at 30.50 and Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140) was up 5.05% or 0.70 points to 14.56 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were National Agriculture Development Co (SE:6010), which fell 2.09% or 0.70 points to trade at 32.75 at the close. Fitaihi Holding Group (SE:4180) declined 1.85% or 0.23 points to end at 12.18 and AXA Cooperative Insurance Company (SE:8250) was down 1.76% or 0.34 points to 18.98.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 97 to 78 and 6 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 1.10% or 0.65 to $58.30 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.28% or 0.18 to hit $63.65 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.60% or 7.77 to trade at $1295.07 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.18% to 4.4825, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7503.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.22% at 92.52.