Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Industrials, Basic Materials and Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 declined 1.16%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Novabase SGPS (LS:NBA), which rose 2.41% or 0.070 points to trade at 2.980 at the close. Meanwhile, J. Martins SGPS (LS:JMT) added 2.05% or 0.3400 points to end at 16.9200 and Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS) was up 0.85% or 0.100 points to 11.900 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which fell 4.91% or 0.0115 points to trade at 0.2225 at the close. Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS) declined 4.34% or 0.2050 points to end at 4.5200 and Mota Engil (LS:MOTA) was down 3.68% or 0.1400 points to 3.6600.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 23 to 9 and 5 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for April delivery was down 1.30% or 0.85 to $64.66 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.42% or 0.88 to hit $60.91 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.50% or 6.60 to trade at $1321.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.14% to 1.2245, while EUR/GBP fell 0.35% to 0.8805.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 90.19.