Saudi Arabia shares higher at close of trade; Tadawul All Share up 0.18%

Investing.com – Saudi Arabia equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Hotels & Tourism , Financial Services and Industrial Investment sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share gained 0.18%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Saudi Steel Pipe Company (SE: 1320 ), which rose 9.97% or 1.96 points to trade at 21.62 at the close. Al Hassan Ghazi Ibrahim Shaker (SE: 1214 ) added 9.89% or 1.04 points to end at 11.56 and Saudi Cement Company (SE: 3030 ) was up 7.14% or 3.93 points to 59.00 in late trade.

Biggest losers included National Agriculture Development Co (SE: 6010 ), which lost 4.40% or 1.67 points to trade at 36.25 in late trade. Yanbu National Petrochemical Co (SE: 2290 ) declined 2.61% or 1.83 points to end at 68.30 and Saudi Telecom (SE: 7010 ) shed 2.45% or 1.96 points to 78.20.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 95 to 82 and 7 ended unchanged on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 1.77% or 1.10 to $63.23 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 1.70% or 1.12 to hit $67.17 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.56% or 7.40 to trade at $1310.40 a troy ounce.

EUR/SAR was down 0.51% to 4.6038, while USD/SAR rose 0.02% to 3.7502.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.40% at 89.83.