Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financials, Consumer Services and Utilities sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 lost 1.27%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Novabase SGPS (LS:NBA), which rose 1.68% or 0.050 points to trade at 3.030 at the close. Corticeira Amorim (LS:CORA) added 1.17% or 0.120 points to end at 10.400 and Semapa (LS:SEM) was up 0.67% or 0.1200 points to 18.1200 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which lost 3.88% or 0.0090 points to trade at 0.2230 in late trade. Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP) declined 3.57% or 0.0109 points to end at 0.2945 and CTT Correios de Portugal SA (LS:CTT) shed 2.53% or 0.0860 points to 3.3120.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 23 to 9 and 4 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for April delivery was up 0.86% or 0.56 to $65.40 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.02% or 0.63 to hit $62.18 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.52% or 7.00 to trade at $1349.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.04% to 1.2410, while EUR/GBP rose 0.31% to 0.8856.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 89.10.