Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Food, Beverages & Tobacco, Oil & Gas and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 lost 0.19%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN), which rose 4.91% or 0.26 points to trade at 5.30 at the close. Tiger Branded Consumer Goods PLC (LAGOS:TIGERBRD) added 4.24% or 0.07 points to end at 1.72 and Zenithbank (LAGOS:ZENITHB) was up 1.93% or 0.23 points to 12.17 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS), which lost 3.67% or 0.16 points to trade at 4.20 in late trade. Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) declined 3.31% or 0.12 points to end at 3.57 and Firstcity Bnk (LAGOS:FCMB) shed 2.74% or 0.02 points to 0.71.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 19 to 16 and 47 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 3.38% or 1.17 to $35.74 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 3.97% or 1.47 to hit $38.54 a barrel, while the April Gold contract rose 0.88% or 11.10 to trade at $1269.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 1.05% to 218.850, while USD/NGN fell 0.03% to 199.100.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.30% at 97.32.