Investing.com – Portugal equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Industrials, Consumer Goods and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 rose 0.34%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS), which rose 2.75% or 0.2400 points to trade at 8.9700 at the close. Corticeira Amorim (LS:CORA) added 1.76% or 0.200 points to end at 11.580 and Nos SGPS SA (LS:NOS) was up 0.98% or 0.0480 points to 4.9580 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Semapa (LS:SEM), which lost 0.87% or 0.2000 points to trade at 22.8000 in late trade. Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA) declined 0.82% or 0.0020 points to end at 0.2430 and Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP) shed 0.77% or 0.0020 points to 0.2574.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 16 to 15 and 5 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for September delivery was up 0.77% or 0.60 to $78.67 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.05% or 0.04 to hit $73.89 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.34% or 4.30 to trade at $1255.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.16% to 1.1732, while EUR/GBP fell 0.10% to 0.8854.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 93.97.