Riyadh – Mubasher: The Saudi Stock Exchange’s (Tadawul) benchmark Tadawul All-Share Index (TASI) closed Tuesday’s trading session with a positive performance, near 9,000 points, supported by the growth of most sectors.

 TASI rose by 140.51 points, or 1.59%, ending the mid-week session at 8,989.72 points.

TASI’s turnover inched up to SAR 5.23 billion on Tuesday, compared to SAR 5.07 billion in the previous session, while the market’s traded volume increased to 178.94 million shares from 169.99 million in the previous session.

The telecommunication sector topped the risers and grew 3.1%, followed by the capital goods and media sectors with 2.9% and 2.36%, respectively.

Similarly, the banking and material sectors levelled up 1.9% and 0.9%, consecutively. 

Meanwhile, NOMU, the main index of the Nomu secondary market, went down 24.84 points, or 0.7%, to finish the session at 3,413.92 points.