Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Banking, Insurance and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 declined 0.54%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG), which rose 10.16% or 2.03 points to trade at 22.01 at the close. Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) added 4.00% or 0.500 points to end at 13.000 and Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) was up 3.93% or 0.48 points to 12.68 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB), which lost 9.25% or 0.270 points to trade at 2.650 in late trade. Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN) declined 9.22% or 0.130 points to end at 1.280 and Wemabank (LAGOS:WEMABAN) shed 8.40% or 0.100 points to 1.090.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 48 to 29 and 12 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 0.81% or 0.53 to $66.14 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.75% or 0.53 to hit $71.06 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.29% or 3.90 to trade at $1360.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 0.51% to 447.140, while USD/NGN unchanged 0.00% to 360.500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.51% at 88.57.