Riyadh – Mubasher: The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) ended Wednesday’s trading session on a high note on the back of positive performance by market sectors amidst improved liquidity.
The all-share index increased by 1.46% or 100.51 points and settled by the end of the session at 6,985.33 points.
A total of 271.5 million shares were traded at SAR 5.38 billion, compared with 233.88 million traded shares and SAR 4.61 billion in traded values on Tuesday.
Ash-Sharqiyah was the highest rising stock, adding 7.69%, while MedGulf topped the losers and declined by 2.86%.
Dar Alarkan was the most actively traded stock with 36.809 million shares, while Al Rajhi registered the highest turnover with SAR 641.122 million.
The banks sector increased by 2.03%, while the materials and energy indices gained 1.31% and 0.83%, respectively.
The telecom sector index closed up by 0.38%.
As for the Nomu parallel market, the main index rose by 7.03% to 7,103 points.
