Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 lost 0.64%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO), which rose 2.47% or 0.99 points to trade at 41.00 at the close. Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) added 2.33% or 0.020 points to end at 0.880 and Zenithbank (LAGOS:ZENITHB) was up 0.14% or 0.02 points to 14.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Stanbicibtc Hl (LAGOS:IBTC), which lost 4.95% or 0.74 points to trade at 14.30 in late trade. Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG) declined 3.80% or 0.24 points to end at 6.24 and Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE) shed 2.78% or 1.00 points to 35.41.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 20 to 16 and 59 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 0.47% or 0.25 to $53.05 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.61% or 0.34 to hit $55.01 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.03% or 0.35 to trade at $1133.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 2.99% to 317.400, while USD/NGN rose 0.40% to 316.500.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.27% at 102.98.