Shanghai Gold Exchange Gold T+D rose 0.51% to 864.53 yuan/gram at the Oct. 26 evening session close; Silver T+D gained 0.30% to 13,056 yuan/kg.

Intermittent Houthi militant attacks over several weeks, which have killed dozens, are increasingly disrupting Saudi economic activity — restricting aviation, forcing postponement of marquee events and effectively halting parts of the Riyadh financial district — and have driven the Tadawul sharply lower, making Saudi equities one of the worst-performing emerging-market markets this month. Economists say it is too early to precisely quantify the damage, but most judge any windfall from higher global oil prices unlikely to fully offset losses to the non-oil economy central to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's roughly $1.4 tln diversification agenda (tourism, FDI and related sectors).

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