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At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share gained 0.57%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were National Petrochemical Company (SE:2002), which rose 5.79% or 2.60 points to trade at 47.50 at the close. Meanwhile, Amana Cooperative Insurance Co (SE:8310) added 4.03% or 2.10 points to end at 54.20 and Etihad Atheeb Telecommunication (SE:7040) was up 3.93% or 1.200 points to 31.750 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Saudi Real Estate Co. (SE:4020), which fell 2.12% or 0.55 points to trade at 25.45 at the close. Al-Jouf Agriculture Development Co (SE:6070) declined 1.78% or 1.40 points to end at 77.30 and Saudi Ceramic Co. (SE:2040) was down 1.65% or 1.10 points to 65.70.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 132 to 61 and 15 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was down 0.94% or 0.65 to $68.56 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.79% or 0.57 to hit $71.66 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.05% or 0.85 to trade at $1813.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.29% to 4.4363, while USD/SAR fell 0.00% to 3.7505.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 92.495.
