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At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share gained 0.09%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were Al-Jouf Agriculture Development Co (SE:6070), which rose 5.44% or 3.30 points to trade at 64.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Alinma Tokio Marine Co (SE:8312) added 4.88% or 1.60 points to end at 34.40 and Banque Saudi Fransi (SE:1050) was up 4.51% or 1.90 points to 44.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Arabian Shield Coop Insurance Co (SE:8070), which fell 4.14% or 1.10 points to trade at 25.50 at the close. Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Co (SE:2380) declined 3.81% or 0.82 points to end at 20.72 and Jabal Omar Development Company (SE:4250) was down 3.06% or 0.85 points to 26.90.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 147 to 64 and 10 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 3.99% or 2.83 to $68.03 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 3.26% or 2.40 to hit $71.12 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.39% or 7.10 to trade at $1797.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.51% to 4.2390, while USD/SAR rose 0.01% to 3.7543.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 96.373.
