Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Industrials and Utilities sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 lost 0.19%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which rose 5.33% or 0.0130 points to trade at 0.2570 at the close. Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS) added 4.72% or 0.550 points to end at 12.200 and F.Rama (LS:RAMA) was up 2.84% or 0.250 points to 9.050 in late trade.
Biggest losers included The Navigator Company SA (LS:NVGR), which lost 2.73% or 0.1450 points to trade at 5.1700 in late trade. Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS) declined 2.28% or 0.1900 points to end at 8.1600 and Semapa (LS:SEM) shed 2.19% or 0.5000 points to 22.3000.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 16 to 12 and 8 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for August delivery was down 1.23% or 0.92 to $74.16 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.28% or 0.18 to hit $65.08 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.31% or 4.00 to trade at $1274.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.00% to 1.1589, while EUR/GBP fell 0.16% to 0.8782.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 94.68.