Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Food, Beverages & Tobacco, Banking and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 lost 0.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Wemabank (LAGOS:WEMABAN), which rose 8.62% or 0.050 points to trade at 0.630 at the close. Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR) added 4.17% or 0.15 points to end at 3.75 and Zenithbank (LAGOS:ZENITHB) was up 2.93% or 0.43 points to 15.13 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO), which lost 7.94% or 4.14 points to trade at 47.07 in late trade. Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) declined 3.53% or 0.030 points to end at 0.820 and Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB) shed 2.88% or 0.030 points to 1.010.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 19 to 18 and 55 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 2.73% or 1.22 to $43.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 2.73% or 1.25 to hit $44.59 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 2.70% or 34.15 to trade at $1232.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.22% to 342.810, while USD/NGN unchanged 0.00% to 316.000.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.25% at 99.04.