Investing.com – Portugal equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Telecoms, Financials and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 rose 1.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which rose 5.96% or 0.0180 points to trade at 0.3200 at the close. Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP) added 3.62% or 0.0084 points to end at 0.2404 and Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS) was up 2.07% or 0.290 points to 14.290 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Montepio (LS:MPIO), which unchanged 0.00% or 0.000 points to trade at 1.000 in late trade. Novabase SGPS (LS:NBA) added 0.03% or 0.001 points to end at 3.200 and Semapa (LS:SEM) gained 0.03% or 0.0050 points to 16.1550.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 26 to 9 and 8 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for October delivery was down 2.00% or 1.04 to $51.06 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 1.78% or 0.87 to hit $47.95 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.20% or 2.57 to trade at $1291.43 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.28% to 1.1789, while EUR/GBP fell 0.08% to 0.9080.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 93.23.