Investing.com – Nigeria stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Food, Beverages & Tobacco and Insurance sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 gained 1.22%.
The best performers of the session on the NSE 30 were Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS), which rose 9.21% or 0.35 points to trade at 4.15 at the close. Meanwhile, Tiger Branded Consumer Goods PLC (LAGOS:TIGERBRD) added 4.24% or 0.05 points to end at 1.25 and Zenithbank (LAGOS:ZENITHB) was up 5.00% or 0.56 points to 11.76 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE), which unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to trade at 35.24 at the close. Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN) declined 0.86% or 0.01 points to end at 1.14 and Wemabank (LAGOS:WEMABAN) was down 0.97% or 0.010 points to 1.020.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lagos Stock Exchange by 27 to 15 and 39 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for March delivery was up 3.30% or 1.06 to $33.37 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 3.32% or 1.12 to hit $35.05 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.13% or 1.50 to trade at $1114.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 0.30% to 217.280, while USD/NGN fell 0.08% to 199.000.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.47% at 98.56.