Investing.com – Nigeria stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Food, Beverages & Tobacco and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 rose 1.24%.
The best performers of the session on the NSE 30 were Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH), which rose 8.23% or 0.950 points to trade at 12.500 at the close. Meanwhile, Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG) added 4.76% or 1.00 points to end at 22.00 and Nestle Nig (LAGOS:NESTLE) was up 4.09% or 55.00 points to 1400.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN), which fell 3.82% or 0.30 points to trade at 7.55 at the close. Pz Cussons LG (LAGOS:PZ) declined 3.20% or 0.80 points to end at 24.20 and Wemabank (LAGOS:WEMABAN) was down 0.80% or 0.010 points to 1.240.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lagos by 59 to 41 and 14 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for March delivery was up 0.40% or 0.24 to $60.84 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.51% or 0.33 to hit $64.03 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.32% or 4.30 to trade at $1353.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 1.05% to 449.610, while USD/NGN fell 0.14% to 360.000.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 88.72.