Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Energy & Utilities, Retail and Hotels & Tourism sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share gained 0.69%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Al Alamiya Cooperative Insurance (SE:8280), which rose 9.90% or 1.40 points to trade at 15.54 at the close. Meanwhile, BURUJ COOPERATIVE INSURANCE CO (SE:8270) added 7.14% or 1.02 points to end at 15.30 and Saudi Arabia Fertilizers Co. (SE:2020) was up 6.87% or 4.30 points to 66.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Saudi Cement Company (SE:3030), which fell 4.73% or 2.35 points to trade at 47.35 at the close. Ash-Sharqiyah Development Company (SE:6060) declined 1.75% or 1.00 points to end at 56.20 and Astra Industrial Group (SE:1212) was down 1.69% or 0.26 points to 15.14.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 152 to 40 and 5 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 26.79% or 3.10 to $14.67 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 9.26% or 1.79 to hit $21.12 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 2.56% or 43.25 to trade at $1731.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.27% to 4.0841, while USD/SAR rose 0.31% to 3.7637.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 100.297.