Investing.com – Nigeria stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Insurance sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 added 1.01%.
The best performers of the session on the NSE 30 were Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS), which rose 2.97% or 0.14 points to trade at 4.86 at the close. Meanwhile, Guaranty Bnk (LAGOS:GUARANT) added 0.85% or 0.20 points to end at 23.71 and Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO) was up 0.68% or 0.67 points to 99.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Wemabank (LAGOS:WEMABAN), which fell 5.00% or 0.050 points to trade at 0.950 at the close. Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN) declined 3.98% or 0.09 points to end at 2.15 and Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) was down 4.17% or 0.25 points to 5.75.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lagos Stock Exchange by 20 to 19 and 56 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for December delivery was down 2.62% or 1.25 to $46.47 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 2.94% or 1.49 to hit $48.98 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 1.01% or 12.00 to trade at $1171.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.05% to 225.560, while USD/NGN rose 0.03% to 199.050.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.23% at 94.98.