Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Insurance, Banking and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 declined 0.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN), which rose 10.00% or 0.06 points to trade at 0.66 at the close. Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) added 3.33% or 0.18 points to end at 5.58 and Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB) was up 2.22% or 0.040 points to 1.800 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO), which lost 5.08% or 3.38 points to trade at 63.22 in late trade. Tiger Branded Consumer Goods PLC (LAGOS:TIGERBRD) declined 3.45% or 0.15 points to end at 4.20 and Wemabank (LAGOS:WEMABAN) shed 2.67% or 0.020 points to 0.730.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 27 to 10 and 54 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 1.65% or 0.77 to $45.88 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 1.60% or 0.76 to hit $46.85 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.07% or 0.95 to trade at $1328.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 1.33% to 312.450, while USD/NGN rose 0.41% to 282.640.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.17% at 96.54.