Investing.com – Portugal equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Consumer Goods and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 gained 0.63%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Galp Energia Nom (LS:GALP), which rose 2.98% or 0.4300 points to trade at 14.8800 at the close. Mota Engil (LS:MOTA) added 2.25% or 0.0340 points to end at 1.5440 and Nos SGPS SA (LS:NOS) was up 2.00% or 0.0990 points to 5.0450 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Semapa (LS:SEM), which lost 1.10% or 0.1600 points to trade at 14.3400 in late trade. Sonae SGPS SA (LS:YSO) declined 0.66% or 0.0055 points to end at 0.8255 and Sonae Capital (LS:SONAC) shed 0.65% or 0.0050 points to 0.7650.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 19 to 13 and 3 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for January delivery was up 2.32% or 1.45 to $63.98 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 3.57% or 1.91 to hit $55.34 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.53% or 6.50 to trade at $1227.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.22% to 1.1395, while EUR/GBP rose 0.29% to 0.8917.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 96.562.