Riyadh – Mubasher: The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) opened Monday’s trading session with negative performance.

By 10:40 am KSA time, the main Tadawul All-Share Index (TASI) inched down 0.11%, or 9.2 points, to 8,516.1 points.

TASI’s traded volume reached 12.4 million shares exchanged at a turnover of SAR 301.12 million through 13,200 transactions.

The real estate management and development sector topped the decliners and fell 0.93%, followed by the basic material with 0.39%.

Meanwhile, the pharma and biotech sector headed the risers after adding 2.11%, followed by the telecommunication and banking sectors with 0.74% and 0.05%, respectively.

On the other hand, NOMU, the benchmark index of the Nomu-Parallel Market, increased by 0.37%, or 12.9 points, to 3,481.78 points.