Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Petrochemicals, Building & Construction and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share added 0.50%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Eastern Province Cement Co. (SE:3080), which rose 5.42% or 1.08 points to trade at 21.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Al Sorayai Trading&Industrial Group (SE:1213) added 4.46% or 0.64 points to end at 15.00 and Saudi Paper Manufacturing Co. (SE:2300) was up 3.58% or 0.48 points to 13.88 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Saudi Enaya Cooperative Insurance (SE:8311), which fell 5.00% or 1.16 points to trade at 22.04 at the close. Amana Cooperative Insurance Co (SE:8310) declined 2.47% or 0.54 points to end at 21.36 and Allianz Saudi Fransi Cooperative Insurance Company (SE:8040) was down 2.23% or 0.70 points to 30.70.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 115 to 55 and 17 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for February delivery was down 2.62% or 1.22 to $45.39 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 2.68% or 1.48 to hit $53.81 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.51% or 6.45 to trade at $1276.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.16% to 4.2667, while USD/SAR fell 0.01% to 3.7513.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 96.410.