Riyadh - Mubasher: The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) ended Tuesday’s trading session in losses, after three consecutive rises, despite an increase in liquidity levels.
The Tadawul All Shares Index (TASI) lost 1.29%, or 104.83 points, its highest daily decline since 11 April, and closed at the level of 8,012.59 points.
On the other hand, the main index of the Nomu-Parallal Market dropped 0.99% and ended the session at 3,120.79 points.
In Tadawul, traded values rose to SAR 4.4 billion, up from SAR 3.6 million on Monday, with volumes going up to 191.45 million shares from 159 million shares yesterday.
All of the market sector indices ended the session in red, except for the retailing index that levelled up 0.05%.
Meanwhile, media and publishing led the decliners by losing 7.79%, followed by energy with 5.3%.
Telecom went down 1.87%, with materials and banks decreasing by 0.97% and 0.96%, respectively.
As for the stocks’ performance, 166 closed in losses, while only 17 ended the session in green.
