Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Telecoms, Basic Materials and Utilities sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 declined 0.10%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Corticeira Amorim (LS:CORA), which rose 1.08% or 0.120 points to trade at 11.280 at the close. Meanwhile, F.Rama (LS:RAMA) added 0.99% or 0.100 points to end at 10.200 and REN (LS:RENE) was up 0.73% or 0.0180 points to 2.4880 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Semapa (LS:SEM), which fell 2.00% or 0.4500 points to trade at 22.0500 at the close. Sonae (LS:YSO) declined 1.53% or 0.0155 points to end at 0.9985 and CTT Correios de Portugal SA (LS:CTT) was down 1.15% or 0.0340 points to 2.9220.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 18 to 14 and 6 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for September delivery was down 1.02% or 0.74 to $72.16 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.25% or 0.17 to hit $67.58 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.94% or 11.50 to trade at $1216.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.28% to 1.1606, while EUR/GBP rose 0.34% to 0.8936.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 95.24.