Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Banking, Food, Beverages & Tobacco and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 lost 0.95%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN), which rose 5.03% or 0.23 points to trade at 4.80 at the close. Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN) added 1.54% or 0.01 points to end at 0.66 and Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) was up 0.98% or 0.030 points to 3.100 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES), which lost 9.74% or 9.54 points to trade at 88.45 in late trade. Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO) declined 4.84% or 2.40 points to end at 47.12 and Zenithbank (LAGOS:ZENITHB) shed 4.82% or 0.72 points to 14.29.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 14 to 13 and 52 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 1.43% or 0.72 to $49.72 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 1.68% or 0.88 to hit $51.63 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.08% or 0.95 to trade at $1253.95 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.51% to 350.920, while USD/NGN rose 0.16% to 310.500.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.04% at 96.70.