Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Banking, Food, Beverages & Tobacco and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 fell 1.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS), which rose 0.35% or 0.02 points to trade at 5.67 at the close. Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES) unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to end at 93.00 and Nestle Nig (LAGOS:NESTLE) was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to 825.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN), which lost 7.81% or 0.05 points to trade at 0.59 in late trade. Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR) declined 4.89% or 0.20 points to end at 3.89 and Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG) shed 4.41% or 0.30 points to 6.79.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 25 to 11 and 57 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.62% or 0.29 to $47.06 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.88% or 0.43 to hit $49.48 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.35% or 4.65 to trade at $1325.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 2.26% to 386.700, while USD/NGN unchanged 0.00% to 327.500.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.01% at 94.72.