Investing.com – Nigeria equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Food, Beverages & Tobacco, Banking and Insurance sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 rose 0.24%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE), which rose 4.71% or 1.98 points to trade at 43.98 at the close. Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) added 4.27% or 0.220 points to end at 5.330 and Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN) was up 3.77% or 0.020 points to 0.550 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Total Nig (LAGOS:TOTAL), which lost 2.60% or 6.00 points to trade at 224.00 in late trade. Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) declined 2.26% or 0.030 points to end at 1.300 and Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR) shed 1.78% or 0.11 points to 6.09.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 39 to 38 and 20 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.41% or 0.21 to $50.48 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $56.30 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.49% or 19.62 to trade at $1296.78 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.86% to 425.520, while USD/NGN fell 0.14% to 355.500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 91.99.