Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Industrials and Utilities sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 lost 0.19%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which rose 5.33% or 0.0130 points to trade at 0.2570 at the close. Meanwhile, Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS) added 4.72% or 0.550 points to end at 12.200 and F.Rama (LS:RAMA) was up 2.84% or 0.250 points to 9.050 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were The Navigator Company SA (LS:NVGR), which fell 2.73% or 0.1450 points to trade at 5.1700 at the close. Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS) declined 2.28% or 0.1900 points to end at 8.1600 and Semapa (LS:SEM) was down 2.19% or 0.5000 points to 22.3000.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 16 to 12 and 8 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for August delivery was down 1.19% or 0.89 to $74.19 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.32% or 0.21 to hit $65.11 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.31% or 4.00 to trade at $1274.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.01% to 1.1588, while EUR/GBP fell 0.17% to 0.8781.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 94.68.