Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Telecoms, Industrials and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 declined 0.21%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP), which rose 2.90% or 0.0066 points to trade at 0.2344 at the close. Ramada Investimentos e Industria SA (LS:RAMA) added 1.57% or 0.150 points to end at 9.700 and REN (LS:RENE) was up 0.86% or 0.0200 points to 2.3540 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sonae SGPS SA (LS:YSO), which lost 3.67% or 0.0320 points to trade at 0.8400 in late trade. Sonae Capital (LS:SONAC) declined 3.37% or 0.0250 points to end at 0.7170 and Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS) shed 3.36% or 0.2600 points to 7.4700.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 19 to 12 and 2 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for December delivery was up 0.05% or 0.04 to $80.47 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.21% or 0.15 to hit $71.49 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.70% or 8.60 to trade at $1230.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.26% to 1.1589, while EUR/GBP rose 0.10% to 0.8801.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 94.68.