Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Banking, Insurance and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 declined 0.37%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE), which rose 5.12% or 1.95 points to trade at 40.00 at the close. Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG) added 3.70% or 0.50 points to end at 14.00 and Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) was up 1.04% or 0.10 points to 9.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Total Nig (LAGOS:TOTAL), which lost 4.71% or 10.98 points to trade at 222.00 in late trade. Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN) declined 3.28% or 0.20 points to end at 5.90 and Zenithbank (LAGOS:ZENITHB) shed 2.82% or 0.67 points to 23.10.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 43 to 26 and 23 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 2.26% or 1.11 to $47.98 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.72% or 0.39 to hit $54.10 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.14% or 1.95 to trade at $1352.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 1.00% to 435.030, while USD/NGN fell 0.14% to 359.000.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 91.33.