Riyadh – Mubasher: The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) registered its third consecutive daily increase on Thursday.

The Tadawul All Share Index (TASI) added 0.84% or 70 points and closed at the level of 8,441.14 points.

The value traded amounted to SAR 4.44 billion with a volume of 189.6 million traded shares, exchanged through 181,066 transactions.

As for the market sector indices, the consumer services index was the top gainer and added 2.33%, while software and services logged the highest loss at 0.85%.

Materials and banks added 1.28% and 1%, respectively, while energy and telecom lost 0.02% and 0.22%, in that order.

Shaker led 156 rising stocks and surged by 7.52%, while Taleem REIT was the top loser among 27 declining stocks and lost 3.2%.