Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Consumer Services, Consumer Goods and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 declined 0.38% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP), which rose 1.71% or 0.0042 points to trade at 0.2495 at the close. Meanwhile, Novabase SGPS (LS:NBA) added 0.59% or 0.021 points to end at 3.592 and EDP (LS:EDP) was up 0.20% or 0.0060 points to 2.9860 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which fell 4.61% or 0.0190 points to trade at 0.3930 at the close. Sonae (LS:YSO) declined 2.08% or 0.0210 points to end at 0.9900 and Semapa (LS:SEM) was down 1.80% or 0.2950 points to 16.0850.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 21 to 12 and 8 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for January delivery was down 0.55% or 0.35 to $63.58 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.68% or 0.39 to hit $56.78 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.86% or 11.05 to trade at $1276.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.13% to 1.1657, while EUR/GBP fell 0.27% to 0.8832.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 94.32.