Investing.com – Nigeria equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking, Food, Beverages & Tobacco and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 added 1.90%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES), which rose 4.97% or 3.05 points to trade at 61.36 at the close. Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR) added 4.11% or 0.15 points to end at 3.57 and Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB) was up 3.85% or 0.030 points to 0.810 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT), which lost 2.44% or 0.020 points to trade at 0.800 in late trade. Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) declined 1.32% or 0.040 points to end at 3.000 and Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN) shed 0.81% or 0.04 points to 4.90.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 18 to 17 and 79 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 0.24% or 0.13 to $53.33 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 0.09% or 0.05 to hit $56.06 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.52% or 6.35 to trade at $1219.15 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 3.05% to 333.080, while USD/NGN fell 1.10% to 315.000.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 101.68.