Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 lost 0.19%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN), which rose 7.41% or 0.040 points to trade at 0.580 at the close. Total Nig (LAGOS:TOTAL) added 4.26% or 11.55 points to end at 282.50 and Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE) was up 4.08% or 1.45 points to 37.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pz Cussons LG (LAGOS:PZ), which lost 4.17% or 1.00 points to trade at 22.80 in late trade. Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) declined 3.72% or 0.40 points to end at 10.36 and Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN) shed 3.47% or 0.21 points to 5.76.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 43 to 38 and 29 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was up 0.65% or 0.30 to $46.38 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 0.70% or 0.34 to hit $48.63 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.13% or 1.71 to trade at $1267.19 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 0.08% to 353.290, while USD/NGN rose 0.15% to 324.500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 97.01.