Investing.com – Portugal equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Utilities, Industrials and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 added 0.27%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which rose 5.46% or 0.0130 points to trade at 0.2510 at the close. EDP (LS:EDP) added 3.05% or 0.0890 points to end at 3.0100 and Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS) was up 2.00% or 0.0950 points to 4.8500 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP), which lost 1.42% or 0.0041 points to trade at 0.2851 in late trade. Semapa (LS:SEM) declined 0.41% or 0.0800 points to end at 19.2200 and Sonae (LS:YSO) shed 0.35% or 0.0040 points to 1.1460.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 20 to 16 and 3 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for May delivery was down 1.08% or 0.71 to $64.78 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 1.42% or 0.88 to hit $61.16 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.21% or 2.80 to trade at $1321.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.17% to 1.2329, while EUR/GBP fell 0.14% to 0.8869.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 89.93.