Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were higher after the close on Sunday, as gains in the Media & Publishing, Building & Construction and Retail sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share added 0.51%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140), which rose 10.00% or 23.60 points to trade at 259.60 at the close. Meanwhile, Saudi Real Estate Co. (SE:4020) added 9.92% or 1.40 points to end at 15.52 and Kingdom Holding Company (SE:4280) was up 4.63% or 0.41 points to 9.26 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Saudi Enaya Cooperative Insurance (SE:8311), which fell 2.41% or 0.65 points to trade at 26.35 at the close. Saudi Industrial Services Co. (SE:2190) declined 2.09% or 0.30 points to end at 14.06 and Saudi Arabian Cooperative Insurance (SE:8100) was down 1.71% or 0.26 points to 14.94.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 99 to 66 and 17 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to $69.95 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.55% or 0.41 to hit $74.86 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.39% or 4.80 to trade at $1241.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.13% to 4.3822, while USD/SAR fell 0.00% to 3.7502.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 94.44.