Investing.com – Nigeria equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Insurance and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 rose 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG), which rose 3.13% or 0.17 points to trade at 5.62 at the close. Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) added 1.23% or 0.05 points to end at 4.10 and Tiger Branded Consumer Goods PLC (LAGOS:TIGERBRD) was up 0.79% or 0.01 points to 1.27 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB), which lost 3.87% or 0.06 points to trade at 1.49 in late trade. Firstcity Bnk (LAGOS:FCMB) declined 2.30% or 0.02 points to end at 0.83 and Wemabank (LAGOS:WEMABAN) shed 2.00% or 0.020 points to 0.980.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 20 to 16 and 42 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 5.80% or 1.84 to $33.59 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 5.30% or 1.75 to hit $34.76 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 1.66% or 20.40 to trade at $1210.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.52% to 219.860, while USD/NGN rose 0.01% to 199.150.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.86% at 97.45.