Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Petrochemicals, Agriculture & Food and Energy & Utilities sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share lost 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Steel Pipe Company (SE:1320), which rose 4.55% or 1.13 points to trade at 25.95 at the close. Meanwhile, Kingdom Holding Company (SE:4280) added 3.61% or 0.30 points to end at 8.60 and Food Products Co. (SE:2100) was up 3.59% or 0.56 points to 16.16 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Allied Cooperative Insurance Group (SE:8150), which fell 3.78% or 0.90 points to trade at 22.90 at the close. Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Co (SE:2380) declined 3.52% or 0.70 points to end at 19.20 and Al-Jouf Agriculture Development Co (SE:6070) was down 2.72% or 0.66 points to 23.64.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 124 to 55 and 12 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for March delivery was down 1.50% or 0.81 to $53.20 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.93% or 0.58 to hit $62.11 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.03% or 0.35 to trade at $1314.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was down 0.13% to 4.2548, while USD/SAR rose 0.00% to 3.7504.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 96.278.