Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Technology and Consumer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 lost 0.51%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Sonae Capital (LS:SONAC), which rose 2.33% or 0.0240 points to trade at 1.0540 at the close. Meanwhile, Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS) added 0.93% or 0.0450 points to end at 4.8650 and Mota Engil (LS:MOTA) was up 0.63% or 0.0250 points to 4.0000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Novabase SGPS (LS:NBA), which fell 1.62% or 0.050 points to trade at 3.040 at the close. Galp Energia Nom (LS:GALP) declined 1.60% or 0.2500 points to end at 15.3700 and J. Martins SGPS (LS:JMT) was down 1.29% or 0.2250 points to 17.1550.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 20 to 16 and 3 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for April delivery was down 0.06% or 0.04 to $68.48 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.25% or 0.16 to hit $64.34 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.34% or 4.50 to trade at $1339.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.10% to 1.2416, while EUR/GBP fell 0.16% to 0.8752.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 88.97.