Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Technology, Utilities and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 fell 0.40%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which rose 6.63% or 0.0118 points to trade at 0.1898 at the close. Meanwhile, Sonae SGPS SA (LS:YSO) added 1.52% or 0.0125 points to end at 0.8325 and REN (LS:RENE) was up 1.15% or 0.0280 points to 2.4580 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS), which fell 2.64% or 0.220 points to trade at 8.120 at the close. Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS) declined 2.39% or 0.1400 points to end at 5.7100 and Corticeira Amorim (LS:CORA) was down 2.11% or 0.200 points to 9.300.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 16 to 9 and 9 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for February delivery was up 1.01% or 0.61 to $60.76 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 1.52% or 0.78 to hit $51.93 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.23% or 2.90 to trade at $1247.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.12% to 1.1354, while EUR/GBP fell 0.13% to 0.8991.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 97.148.