Riyadh – Mubasher: The main index of the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) fell 2.09% or 138.29 points to stand at 6,492.86 points on Tuesday.
Traded volume retreated 17.91% to 392.3 million shares from 477.9 million shares on Monday, while turnover levelled down 18.04% to SAR 5.85 billion, compared to SAR 7.14 billion yesterday.
The media and Real Estate Investment Trusts sector (REIT) sectors advanced 5.14% and 3.31%, respectively.
The insurance led the losing sectors and fell 4.84%, followed by the real estate development and hotel sectors which decreased 4.04% and 3.10%, respectively.
The telecom sector went down 2.14%, followed by the banks and petrochemical sectors which lost 1.81% and 1.21%, respectively.
United International Transport’s (Budget Saudi Arabia) led the worst performers and declined 9.77%, followed by the Company for Cooperative Insurance (Tawuniya) and Bupa Arabia for Cooperative Insurance which lost 9.18% and 6.29%, respectively.
On the other hand, Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG) topped the best performers and advanced 6.14%, followed by Saudi Printing and Packaging which increased 3.58%.
