Investing.com – Nigeria equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Food, Beverages & Tobacco, Banking and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 rose 0.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN), which rose 5.00% or 0.27 points to trade at 5.67 at the close. Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE) added 4.98% or 1.81 points to end at 38.19 and Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG) was up 4.39% or 0.38 points to 9.04 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO), which lost 3.85% or 2.00 points to trade at 50.00 in late trade. Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR) declined 2.20% or 0.11 points to end at 4.88 and Zenithbank (LAGOS:ZENITHB) shed 1.91% or 0.42 points to 21.53.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 42 to 40 and 17 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.09% or 0.04 to $46.06 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.23% or 0.11 to hit $48.53 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.67% or 8.29 to trade at $1241.99 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 3.58% to 363.540, while USD/NGN fell 10.29% to 314.450.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.54% at 94.41.