Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 fell 0.94%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN), which rose 5.08% or 0.29 points to trade at 6.00 at the close. Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN) added 3.23% or 0.020 points to end at 0.640 and Nig Brew (LAGOS:NB) was up 1.61% or 2.98 points to 188.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Total Nig (LAGOS:TOTAL), which lost 4.91% or 11.20 points to trade at 218.00 in late trade. Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE) declined 4.89% or 2.20 points to end at 42.82 and Pz Cussons LG (LAGOS:PZ) shed 4.75% or 1.28 points to 25.65.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 41 to 37 and 18 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 2.42% or 1.17 to $47.24 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 1.41% or 0.74 to hit $51.83 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.21% or 2.66 to trade at $1292.04 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 0.21% to 426.010, while USD/NGN rose 0.69% to 366.500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 93.16.