The Saudi stock market index continues its series of declines, closing down 355.46 points, or 3.59 percent, at 9547.54 points, with trades of nearly 10.2 billion points, during the past week. The trading of the last period witnessed a sharp decline in market shares, in which the shares of 151 companies recorded a decline in value, while the shares of 4 companies rose between 1.23 percent for the group's stock to a slight rise of 0.15 percent on Al Babtain's stock, and the shares of 6 companies remained unchanged, while the number of shares traded exceeded 326.7 million shares distributed over more than 156.8 thousand transactions.

All 15 sectors of the Saudi stock market closed recently on major declines, led by the insurance sector, which declined by 7.29 percent, followed by the transportation sector by 6.41 percent, the multi-investment sector by 5.3 percent, the real estate development sector by 4.82 percent, the construction sector by 4.47 percent, and the industrial investment companies sector by 4.22 percent.
The petrochemical sector declined by 4.18 percent, followed by the media and publishing sector by 3.93 percent, banks and financial services by 3.26 percent, cement by 2.97 percent, agriculture and food industries by 2.91 percent, and hotels by 2.91 percent, followed by the hotels and tourism sector by 2.39 percent, the retail sector by 2.26 percent, communications and information technology by 2.22 percent, while the energy and utilities sector was the least declining sector by 1.50 percent, while no special deals were recorded today.

Today's trading did not witness any special deals.