Investing.com – Portugal stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Industrials, Utilities and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 gained 0.76%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Mota Engil (LS:MOTA), which rose 4.82% or 0.1700 points to trade at 3.7000 at the close. Meanwhile, Galp Energia Nom (LS:GALP) added 2.04% or 0.2950 points to end at 14.7800 and CTT Correios de Portugal SA (LS:CTT) was up 1.98% or 0.0660 points to 3.3980 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP), which fell 1.32% or 0.0041 points to trade at 0.3054 at the close. Novabase SGPS (LS:NBA) declined 0.33% or 0.010 points to end at 2.980 and Semapa (LS:SEM) was 0.00% or 0.0000 points to 18.0000.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 26 to 6 and 7 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for April delivery was up 1.20% or 0.77 to $65.10 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.93% or 0.57 to hit $61.91 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.04% or 0.50 to trade at $1355.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.49% to 1.2443, while EUR/GBP fell 0.12% to 0.8859.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 88.84.