Investing.com – Nigeria equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Insurance sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 rose 1.55%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR), which rose 10.12% or 1.29 points to trade at 14.04 at the close. Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB) added 9.88% or 0.170 points to end at 1.890 and Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN) was up 7.55% or 0.040 points to 0.570 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pz Cussons LG (LAGOS:PZ), which lost 3.77% or 0.80 points to trade at 20.60 in late trade. Nestle Nig (LAGOS:NESTLE) declined 3.60% or 55.99 points to end at 1500.00 and Total Nig (LAGOS:TOTAL) shed 0.84% or 1.94 points to 228.01.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 59 to 16 and 12 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.73% or 0.45 to $62.08 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.24% or 0.16 to hit $68.00 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.09% or 1.20 to trade at $1319.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 0.67% to 434.840, while USD/NGN unchanged 0.00% to 360.000.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 91.67.