Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Utilities, Telecoms and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 declined 0.67%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were J. Martins SGPS (LS:JMT), which rose 1.09% or 0.1500 points to trade at 13.9100 at the close. Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS) added 0.77% or 0.0600 points to end at 7.8300 and Semapa (LS:SEM) was up 0.46% or 0.1000 points to 21.6500 in late trade.
Biggest losers included F.Rama (LS:RAMA), which lost 2.33% or 0.300 points to trade at 12.600 in late trade. EDP (LS:EDP) declined 2.01% or 0.0700 points to end at 3.4060 and Mota Engil (LS:MOTA) shed 1.98% or 0.0700 points to 3.4650.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 27 to 8 and 4 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for July delivery was down 0.76% or 0.61 to $79.19 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.09% or 0.78 to hit $71.06 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 1.16% or 15.00 to trade at $1304.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.31% to 1.1732, while EUR/GBP fell 0.01% to 0.8763.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 93.67.