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At the close in Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share lost 0.82%.
The best performers of the session on the Tadawul All Share were National Metal Manufacturing Co. (SE:2220), which rose 7.45% or 2.10 points to trade at 30.30 at the close. Meanwhile, Nama Chemicals Co. (SE:2210) added 3.33% or 1.30 points to end at 40.30 and Saudi Advanced Industries Co. (SE:2120) was up 2.74% or 1.40 points to 52.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were The Saudi Investment Bank (SE:1030), which fell 25.75% or 5.84 points to trade at 16.84 at the close. Saudi Automotive Services Co. (SE:4050) declined 3.50% or 1.35 points to end at 37.25 and Banque Saudi Fransi (SE:1050) was down 3.23% or 1.70 points to 51.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange by 148 to 63 and 14 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for March delivery was up 0.77% or 0.68 to $88.88 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 0.70% or 0.62 to hit $89.78 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.09% or 1.70 to trade at $1803.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/SAR was up 0.37% to 4.2435, while USD/SAR fell 0.01% to 3.7516.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.44% at 95.955.
