Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Real Estate Development, Petrochemicals and Industrial Investment sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share gained 0.46% to hit a new 1-month high.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Makkah Construction&Development Co (SE:4100), which rose 8.68% or 6.43 points to trade at 80.50 at the close. Meanwhile, Knowledge Economic City (SE:4310) added 5.47% or 0.62 points to end at 11.96 and Astra Industrial Group (SE:1212) was up 4.64% or 0.71 points to 16.02 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Southern Province Cement Co. (SE:3050), which fell 2.53% or 1.11 points to trade at 42.70 at the close. Middle East Paper Co (SE:1202) declined 2.30% or 0.47 points to end at 19.98 and Arriyadh Development Co. (SE:4150) was down 1.55% or 0.28 points to 17.80.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 125 to 50 and 8 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.84% or 0.48 to $57.78 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 1.17% or 0.73 to hit $63.26 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.17% or 2.20 to trade at $1279.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.00% to 4.4432, while USD/SAR fell 0.02% to 3.7498.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 93.24.