Investing.com – Nigeria equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Food, Beverages & Tobacco and Insurance sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 gained 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE), which rose 10.17% or 5.50 points to trade at 59.60 at the close. Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG) added 4.90% or 1.05 points to end at 22.50 and Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN) was up 4.26% or 0.30 points to 7.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Wemabank (LAGOS:WEMABAN), which lost 5.00% or 0.050 points to trade at 1.000 in late trade. Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN) declined 4.08% or 0.040 points to end at 0.940 and Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES) shed 3.57% or 3.50 points to 94.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 45 to 43 and 11 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.37% or 0.23 to $62.34 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $65.55 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 1.25% or 16.50 to trade at $1336.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 0.78% to 446.920, while USD/NGN rose 0.14% to 360.500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.41% at 89.59.