Riyadh – Mubasher: The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) maintained its rising trend for the third consecutive session and ended Monday’s trading in gains, reaching its highest level since last August.

The Tadawul All Share Index (TASI) added 0.26% or 21.27 points and closed the second session of the week at the level of 8,120.01 points.

This is the highest level for the Saudi benchmark index since 28 August.

Traded volumes grew to 160.570 million shares with a turnover of SAR 3.99 billion, through 138,730 transactions.

SISCO was the session’s top gainer, as it gained 4.82%, followed with Sipchem with 4.23%, while Nama led the falling stocks, as it lost 2.84%.

Meanwhile, the main index of the Parallel Market (Nomu) increased by 5.57% and closed 6,552.53 points.