Investing.com – Portugal stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Financials and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 rose 1.57%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Portucel (LS:PTI), which rose 6.07% or 0.2060 points to trade at 3.6000 at the close. Meanwhile, Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS) added 4.87% or 0.1870 points to end at 4.0230 and Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP) was up 4.35% or 0.0024 points to 0.0576 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Galp Energia Nom (LS:GALP), which fell 0.29% or 0.0280 points to trade at 9.5790 at the close. Banco BPI (LS:BBPI) declined 0.19% or 0.0020 points to end at 1.0770 and Sonae (LS:YSO) was up 0.45% or 0.0050 points to 1.1160.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 40 to 13 and 2 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for December delivery was down 0.35% or 0.17 to $49.52 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 1.29% or 0.60 to hit $46.04 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.71% or 8.40 to trade at $1188.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.61% to 1.1404, while EUR/GBP fell 0.76% to 0.7357.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.32% at 94.28.