Investing.com – Portugal stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Telecoms, Financials and Consumer Goods sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 gained 1.29%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which rose 5.96% or 0.0180 points to trade at 0.3200 at the close. Meanwhile, Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP) added 3.62% or 0.0084 points to end at 0.2404 and Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS) was up 2.07% or 0.290 points to 14.290 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Montepio (LS:MPIO), which unchanged 0.00% or 0.000 points to trade at 1.000 at the close. Novabase SGPS (LS:NBA) added 0.03% or 0.001 points to end at 3.200 and Semapa (LS:SEM) was up 0.03% or 0.0050 points to 16.1550.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 26 to 9 and 8 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for October delivery was down 2.00% or 1.04 to $51.06 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 1.78% or 0.87 to hit $47.95 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.21% or 2.67 to trade at $1291.33 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.28% to 1.1789, while EUR/GBP fell 0.08% to 0.9080.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 93.23.