Riyadh – Mubasher: The Saudi Stock Exchange’s (Tadawul) benchmark Tadawul All Share Index (TASI) closed Monday’s trading session with negative performance, dragged by the fall of many sectors.

TASI declined by 140.19 points, or 1.6%, to finish the session at 8,598.97 points.

TASI’s turnover increased to SAR 4.44 billion on Monday, compared to SAR 2.75 on Sunday, while the market’s traded volume levelled up to 138 million shares from 111.2 million the session before.

The telecommunication sector topped the losers and fell 3.15%, followed by the banking and materials sectors with 1.81% and 1.55%, respectively.

On the other hand, the software and services sector headed the bourse’s three gainers after growing 1.97%.

Meanwhile, NOMU, the main index of the Nomu secondary market, went down 121.76 points, or 3.3%, to end the session at 3,562.96 points.