Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Real Estate Development, Building & Construction and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share gained 0.03%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Qassim Agriculture Co. (SE:6020), which rose 6.57% or 0.66 points to trade at 10.70 at the close. Meanwhile, Al-Jouf Agriculture Development Co (SE:6070) added 4.39% or 0.94 points to end at 22.34 and Tabuk Agriculture Development Co (SE:6040) was up 3.98% or 0.39 points to 10.18 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Saudi Industrial Export Co (SE:4140), which fell 9.95% or 14.80 points to trade at 134.00 at the close. Saudi Arabia Fertilizers Co. (SE:2020) declined 4.26% or 3.40 points to end at 76.50 and Saudi Fisheries Co. (SE:6050) was down 3.46% or 0.95 points to 26.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 89 to 80 and 12 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.25% or 0.14 to $56.39 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.86% or 0.57 to hit $66.69 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.83% or 9.90 to trade at $1209.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.03% to 4.2412, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7521.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 97.06.