Investing.com – Nigeria equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Food, Beverages & Tobacco and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 rose 0.67%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN), which rose 3.92% or 0.020 points to trade at 0.530 at the close. Total Nig (LAGOS:TOTAL) added 3.54% or 7.90 points to end at 231.00 and Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES) was up 1.67% or 1.62 points to 98.42 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN), which lost 4.67% or 0.28 points to trade at 5.70 in late trade. Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB) declined 2.65% or 0.030 points to end at 1.100 and Stanbicibtc Hl (LAGOS:IBTC) shed 1.25% or 0.50 points to 39.50.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 40 to 33 and 24 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 1.92% or 0.96 to $50.86 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 1.87% or 1.03 to hit $56.17 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.43% or 5.64 to trade at $1316.24 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.28% to 429.200, while USD/NGN fell 0.42% to 356.000.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 91.49.