Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Financials, Basic Materials and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 fell 2.41%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Galp Energia Nom (LISBON:GALP), which rose 0.33% or 0.0400 points to trade at 12.1250 at the close. Banco BPI (LISBON:BBPI) added 0.21% or 0.0030 points to end at 1.4530 and Mota Engil (LISBON:MOTA) was down 0.92% or 0.0285 points to 3.0615 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Comercial Portugues (LISBON:BCP), which lost 5.27% or 0.0049 points to trade at 0.0880 in late trade. Sonae (LISBON:YSO) declined 4.03% or 0.0515 points to end at 1.2265 and Impresa SGPS (LISBON:IMPA) shed 3.68% or 0.04 points to 0.92.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 55 to 14 and 4 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for June delivery was up 2.39% or 1.58 to $68.03 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 3.14% or 1.85 to hit $60.78 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 0.46% or 5.40 to trade at $1192.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.40% to 1.1191, while EUR/GBP fell 0.03% to 0.7368.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.40% at 95.20.