Investing.com – Nigeria equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking, Food, Beverages & Tobacco and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 gained 0.39%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN), which rose 8.33% or 0.070 points to trade at 0.910 at the close. Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) added 5.00% or 0.160 points to end at 3.350 and Pz Cussons LG (LAGOS:PZ) was up 4.35% or 1.00 points to 22.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN), which lost 5.00% or 0.42 points to trade at 7.98 in late trade. Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO) declined 4.99% or 2.84 points to end at 54.06 and Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG) shed 4.56% or 0.97 points to 20.98.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 40 to 37 and 20 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.56% or 0.36 to $64.66 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.31% or 0.22 to hit $70.09 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.43% or 5.80 to trade at $1340.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 1.37% to 441.820, while USD/NGN unchanged 0.00% to 360.000.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.50% at 90.17.