Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Banking, Food, Beverages & Tobacco and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 declined 0.79%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Stanbicibtc Hl (LAGOS:IBTC), which rose 3.73% or 0.55 points to trade at 15.30 at the close. Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) added 1.78% or 0.08 points to end at 4.62 and Tiger Branded Consumer Goods PLC (LAGOS:TIGERBRD) was up 1.00% or 0.03 points to 3.04 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB), which lost 8.78% or 0.13 points to trade at 1.35 in late trade. Nig Brew (LAGOS:NB) declined 4.12% or 4.00 points to end at 93.00 and Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) shed 3.23% or 0.04 points to 1.20.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 26 to 13 and 47 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 2.74% or 1.02 to $36.16 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 2.66% or 1.05 to hit $38.48 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 1.05% or 13.10 to trade at $1232.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.20% to 220.870, while USD/NGN unchanged 0.00% to 199.150.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.02% at 96.62.