Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Consumer Goods, Consumer Services and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 declined 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Montepio (LS:MPIO), which rose 9.49% or 0.039 points to trade at 0.450 at the close. Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA) added 4.08% or 0.0140 points to end at 0.3570 and Sonae Capital (LS:SONAC) was up 2.40% or 0.0170 points to 0.7250 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP), which lost 1.87% or 0.0028 points to trade at 0.1467 in late trade. J. Martins SGPS (LS:JMT) declined 1.47% or 0.2250 points to end at 15.1050 and Corticeira Amorim (LS:CORA) shed 1.21% or 0.118 points to 9.650.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 20 to 15 and 4 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for April delivery was down 0.65% or 0.37 to $56.21 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.61% or 0.33 to hit $54.12 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.56% or 6.95 to trade at $1258.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.00% to 1.0581, while EUR/GBP rose 0.65% to 0.8482.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 100.97.