Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Technology, Utilities and Consumer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI lost 0.06%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI were CTT Correios de Portugal SA (ELI:CTT), which rose 1.29% or 0.06 points to trade at 4.31 at the close. Meanwhile, Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA (ELI:JMT) added 0.24% or 0.04 points to end at 16.67 and Galp Energia Nom (ELI:GALP) was up 0.21% or 0.04 points to 19.29 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Mota Engil SGPS SA (ELI:MOTA), which fell 2.72% or 0.09 points to trade at 3.36 at the close. Corticeira Amorim (ELI:CORA) declined 0.45% or 0.04 points to end at 8.87 and Banco Comercial Portugues (ELI:BCP) was 0.32% or 0.00 points to 0.40.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 17 to 12 and 8 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for October delivery was down 0.87% or 0.67 to $76.53 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 1.11% or 0.81 to hit $72.36 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.23% or 5.90 to trade at $2,544.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.13% to 1.11, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.16% to 0.85.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.22% at 101.07.