Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Media & Publishing, Petrochemicals and Real Estate Development sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share declined 1.31%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Kingdom Holding Company (SE:4280), which rose 5.91% or 1.20 points to trade at 21.50 at the close. Meanwhile, Tourism Enterprise Co. (SE:4170) added 3.57% or 1.74 points to end at 50.50 and Allied Cooperative Insurance Group (SE:8150) was up 2.97% or 1.10 points to 38.10 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Saudi Indian Company Insurance (SE:8110), which fell 7.11% or 1.45 points to trade at 18.95 at the close. Al Sorayai Trading&Industrial Group (SE:1213) declined 4.29% or 0.94 points to end at 20.95 and Food Products Co. (SE:2100) was down 4.13% or 1.63 points to 37.80.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 145 to 18.
Crude oil for June delivery was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to $59.39 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.68% or 0.45 to hit $65.71 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 0.02% or 0.20 to trade at $1189.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.49% to 4.1845, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7500.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.22% at 95.11.