Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Telecoms, Consumer Goods and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 lost 0.82% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Novabase SGPS (LS:NBA), which rose 4.75% or 0.147 points to trade at 3.239 at the close. Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP) added 1.12% or 0.0028 points to end at 0.2523 and Galp Energia Nom (LS:GALP) was up 0.37% or 0.0600 points to 16.2800 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which lost 7.12% or 0.0280 points to trade at 0.3650 in late trade. Corticeira Amorim (LS:CORA) declined 3.28% or 0.380 points to end at 11.205 and REN (LS:RENE) shed 3.01% or 0.0800 points to 2.5800.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 28 to 4 and 8 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for January delivery was down 0.41% or 0.26 to $63.26 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.23% or 0.13 to hit $56.87 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.40% or 5.08 to trade at $1279.28 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.06% to 1.1660, while EUR/GBP rose 0.62% to 0.8897.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 94.44.