Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Petrochemicals, Cement and Real Estate Development sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share fell 0.10%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Enaya Cooperative Insurance (SE:8311), which rose 4.81% or 1.00 points to trade at 21.80 at the close. Meanwhile, Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140) added 4.09% or 3.50 points to end at 89.10 and Red Sea Housing Services Company (SE:4230) was up 2.45% or 0.38 points to 15.88 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Al-Ahlia Insurance Company (SE:8140), which fell 3.04% or 0.36 points to trade at 11.50 at the close. Saudi Arabian Cooperative Insurance (SE:8100) declined 2.86% or 0.34 points to end at 11.56 and Saudi Int Petrochemical Co (SE:2310) was down 2.70% or 0.54 points to 19.46.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 100 to 69 and 18 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for February delivery was down 1.48% or 0.67 to $44.74 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 1.39% or 0.75 to hit $53.05 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.46% or 5.95 to trade at $1287.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.56% to 4.2754, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7513.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.36% at 96.083.