Investing.com – Nigeria stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Insurance and Banking sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 added 0.04%.
The best performers of the session on the NSE 30 were Tiger Branded Consumer Goods PLC (LAGOS:TIGERBRD), which rose 3.51% or 0.04 points to trade at 1.14 at the close. Meanwhile, Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE) added 3.29% or 1.45 points to end at 45.00 and Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) was up 2.42% or 0.11 points to 4.65 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN), which fell 6.06% or 0.08 points to trade at 1.30 at the close. Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN) unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to end at 5.70 and Nig Brew (LAGOS:NB) was down 1.84% or 2.23 points to 118.51.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lagos Stock Exchange by 34 to 12 and 40 ended unchanged.
Shares in Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN) fell to all time lows; losing 6.06% or 0.08 to 1.30.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 2.31% or 0.82 to $34.70 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.41% or 0.15 to hit $37.23 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 2.39% or 25.70 to trade at $1051.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.87% to 215.810, while USD/NGN rose 0.06% to 199.025.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.95% at 99.34.