Riyadh - Mubasher: The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) ended Monday’s trading in red for the third consecutive session, as sectors saw a group rise, led by banks and petrochemicals.
Tadawul All Shares Index (TASI) once again ditched the 6500-point level, as it lost 1.12% or 73.75 points, and closed at the level of 6,496.74 points.
Total turnover saw a mild decline as it registered SAR 3.61 billion ($936 million) compared to SAR 3.71 billion ($989 million) on Sunday.
On the other hand, traded volumes increased to 250.95 million shares from 250.2 million shares in last session.
As for the sectors performance, media and publishing led the decliners and fell by 2.67% as Research and Marketing, as well as Printing and Packaging went down by 3.12% and 1.05% respectively.
The banks sector slid 1.32% as all of its stocks declined except for Al Bilad Bank which edged up 0.05%.
Similarly, the petrochem shed 0.35%, despite SABIC and SAFCO adding 0.05% and 0.3% respectively.
Retail rose 0.22% as Jarir Marketing went up by 2.2%, while multi-investment increased by 0.34% as SARCO jumped 3.9%.
SABB was today’s biggest loser as it dropped 4.82% and closed at SAR 22.4, while Shams led the gainers and surged 6.2% to SAR 29.
Dar Al Arkan registered the highest traded value and volume with 63.7 million traded shares and a total turnover of SAR 349.67, it closed at SAR 5.45 slipping 0.37%.
