Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Technology, Industrials and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 lost 1.14% to hit a new 52-week low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Semapa (LS:SEM), which rose 1.89% or 0.2400 points to trade at 12.9600 at the close. J. Martins SGPS (LS:JMT) added 0.15% or 0.0150 points to end at 10.1200 and CTT Correios de Portugal SA (LS:CTT) was up 0.14% or 0.0040 points to 2.9340 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which lost 3.36% or 0.0058 points to trade at 0.1670 in late trade. Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP) declined 2.56% or 0.0058 points to end at 0.2212 and Nos SGPS SA (LS:NOS) shed 2.49% or 0.1300 points to 5.1000.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 25 to 8 and 1 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for March delivery was down 3.71% or 2.05 to $53.24 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 3.56% or 1.66 to hit $44.95 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.83% or 10.55 to trade at $1280.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.83% to 1.1447, while EUR/GBP rose 0.67% to 0.9047.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.61% at 95.990.