Riyadh – Mubasher: The Saudi Stock Exchange’s Tadawul All Share Index (TASI) started Wednesday, the first session after Eid al-Fitr holiday, in the red after dropping 5.08 points, or 0.06%, to 8,265.38 points by 10:30 am KSA time.

TASI’s trading volume reached 12 million shares exchanged at a turnover of SAR 233.8 million through 9,700 transactions.

The healthcare sector fell 0.78%, followed by the food and staples retailing sector with 0.56%. The banking sector dropped 0.19%.

On the other hand, the media, materials, and telecommunication services sectors rose 3.14%, 0.23%, and 0.1%, respectively.

Saudi Company for Hardware’s (SACO) stock led losers with 1.82% to register SAR 118.80, whereas SABB Takaful’s stock increased 4.25% to SAR 22.04.

Meanwhile, NOMU, the benchmark index of the Nomu-Parallel Market, remained unchanged at 3,113.77 points.