Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 declined 0.68%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN), which rose 1.56% or 0.01 points to trade at 0.65 at the close. Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG) added 0.92% or 0.06 points to end at 6.51 and Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES) was up 0.49% or 0.47 points to 93.53 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN), which lost 5.00% or 0.21 points to trade at 3.99 in late trade. Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) declined 2.86% or 0.090 points to end at 3.050 and Zenithbank (LAGOS:ZENITHB) shed 2.34% or 0.35 points to 14.61.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 25 to 10 and 49 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 0.14% or 0.06 to $44.38 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 1.64% or 0.78 to hit $46.85 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 1.85% or 24.55 to trade at $1351.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.05% to 346.460, while USD/NGN unchanged 0.00% to 315.500.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.89% at 94.89.