Investing.com – Nigeria equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Food, Beverages & Tobacco, Banking and Insurance sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 added 0.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Total Nig (LAGOS:TOTAL), which rose 4.98% or 10.80 points to trade at 227.60 at the close. Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG) added 4.60% or 0.60 points to end at 13.65 and Stanbicibtc Hl (LAGOS:IBTC) was up 3.87% or 1.49 points to 40.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE), which lost 3.50% or 1.50 points to trade at 40.80 in late trade. Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN) declined 1.67% or 0.10 points to end at 6.28 and Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN) shed 1.56% or 0.010 points to 0.630.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 44 to 28 and 25 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.51% or 0.24 to $47.67 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.25% or 0.13 to hit $52.17 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.41% or 5.26 to trade at $1297.26 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.27% to 424.880, while USD/NGN fell 2.18% to 359.500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.64% at 92.63.