Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Agriculture & Food, Energy & Utilities and Building & Construction sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share fell 0.27%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Anb Insurance (SE:8011), which rose 7.38% or 1.80 points to trade at 26.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Umm Al-Qura (SE:3005) added 4.31% or 0.62 points to end at 15.00 and Saudi Ground Services Co (SE:4031) was up 3.17% or 0.95 points to 30.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Saudi Company for Hardware (SE:4008), which fell 5.49% or 4.20 points to trade at 72.30 at the close. Gulf Union Cooperative Insurance (SE:8120) declined 4.79% or 0.70 points to end at 13.90 and Allied Cooperative Insurance Group SJSC (SE:8150) was down 3.50% or 0.70 points to 19.28.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 124 to 49 and 14 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was down 2.64% or 1.68 to $61.92 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 1.87% or 1.35 to hit $70.83 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 1.14% or 14.65 to trade at $1269.55 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.10% to 4.1936, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7503.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 97.512.