Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Financial Services, Agriculture & Food and Petrochemicals sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share fell 0.35%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Enaya Cooperative Insurance (SE:8311), which rose 9.86% or 2.36 points to trade at 26.30 at the close. Meanwhile, Takween Advanced Industries (SE:1201) added 5.75% or 0.62 points to end at 11.40 and Saudi Indian Company Insurance (SE:8110) was up 4.94% or 0.70 points to 14.88 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Arab National Bank (SE:1080), which fell 2.36% or 0.80 points to trade at 33.05 at the close. Yanbu National Petrochemical Co (SE:2290) declined 2.34% or 1.80 points to end at 75.20 and Samba Financial Group (SE:1090) was down 2.13% or 0.70 points to 32.15.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 88 to 77 and 19 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 1.12% or 0.83 to $73.28 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 2.16% or 1.70 to hit $77.16 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.27% or 3.40 to trade at $1252.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.04% to 4.4057, while USD/SAR rose 0.02% to 3.7506.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 93.89.