Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were higher after the close on Sunday, as gains in the Media & Publishing, Telecoms & IT and Petrochemicals sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share rose 1.42%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Fisheries Co. (SE:6050), which rose 9.94% or 2.24 points to trade at 24.78 at the close. Meanwhile, Tourism Enterprise Co. (SE:4170) added 6.42% or 1.90 points to end at 31.50 and National Agriculture Marketing Co. (SE:4160) was up 6.30% or 1.65 points to 27.85 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Mouwasat Medical Services Company (SE:4002), which fell 3.75% or 3.30 points to trade at 84.70 at the close. Makkah Construction&Development Co (SE:4100) declined 2.26% or 1.90 points to end at 82.00 and Arabia Insurance Cooperative Co (SE:8160) was down 1.99% or 0.40 points to 19.70.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 148 to 25 and 10 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.05% or 0.71 to $68.54 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $76.13 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 1.53% or 18.30 to trade at $1212.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.68% to 4.3591, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7506.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.49% at 95.08.