Investing.com – Nigeria equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 gained 0.97%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR), which rose 7.63% or 0.29 points to trade at 4.09 at the close. Total Nig (LAGOS:TOTAL) added 5.00% or 13.80 points to end at 289.85 and Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) was up 2.04% or 0.11 points to 5.51 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN), which lost 4.70% or 0.21 points to trade at 4.26 in late trade. Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) declined 3.49% or 0.030 points to end at 0.850 and Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES) shed 2.95% or 2.30 points to 75.25.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 23 to 14 and 67 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.09% or 0.05 to $52.88 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.11% or 0.06 to hit $55.75 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.63% or 7.35 to trade at $1158.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 3.89% to 336.380, while USD/NGN fell 0.55% to 314.750.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.06% at 101.06.