Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Consumer Goods, Industrials and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 lost 0.41%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS), which rose 0.74% or 0.060 points to trade at 8.180 at the close. Sonae Capital (LS:SONAC) added 0.67% or 0.0060 points to end at 0.8960 and CTT Correios de Portugal SA (LS:CTT) was up 0.50% or 0.0160 points to 3.1980 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which lost 2.63% or 0.0050 points to trade at 0.1848 in late trade. Semapa (LS:SEM) declined 2.10% or 0.2800 points to end at 13.0400 and Sonae SGPS SA (LS:YSO) shed 1.98% or 0.0165 points to 0.8160.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 15 to 14 and 5 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for February delivery was down 1.95% or 1.20 to $60.25 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 2.68% or 1.41 to hit $51.17 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.29% or 3.60 to trade at $1243.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.51% to 1.1303, while EUR/GBP rose 0.20% to 0.8991.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 97.450.