Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Agriculture & Food, Retail and Financial Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share rose 0.01%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were National Gas & Industrialization Co (SE:2080), which rose 4.71% or 1.40 points to trade at 31.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Middle East Paper Co (SE:1202) added 4.20% or 0.60 points to end at 14.90 and Taiba Holding Co. (SE:4090) was up 3.70% or 1.50 points to 42.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Saudi Industrial Investment Group (SE:2250), which fell 2.77% or 0.55 points to trade at 19.30 at the close. Salama Cooperative Insurance Co (SE:8050) declined 2.74% or 0.45 points to end at 16.00 and Gulf Union Cooperative Insurance (SE:8120) was down 2.62% or 0.45 points to 16.75.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 87 to 61 and 30 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 2.64% or 1.31 to $48.35 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 2.70% or 1.41 to hit $50.83 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.26% or 3.22 to trade at $1265.32 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.32% to 4.2096, while USD/SAR fell 0.01% to 3.7500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 97.02.