Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Insurance sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 declined 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Nig Brew (LAGOS:NB), which rose 4.33% or 5.19 points to trade at 125.05 at the close. Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) added 3.15% or 0.100 points to end at 3.260 and Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) was up 2.53% or 0.17 points to 6.88 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR), which lost 5.12% or 0.21 points to trade at 3.80 in late trade. Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO) declined 5.00% or 2.10 points to end at 39.90 and Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE) shed 5.00% or 1.70 points to 32.30.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 21 to 11 and 59 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 1.84% or 0.99 to $54.77 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 1.55% or 0.87 to hit $57.05 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.05% or 0.65 to trade at $1238.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.60% to 332.360, while USD/NGN rose 0.16% to 315.250.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.43% at 101.35.