Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Consumer Services and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 declined 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were REN (LS:RENE), which rose 1.02% or 0.0260 points to trade at 2.5640 at the close. Mota Engil (LS:MOTA) added 0.88% or 0.0350 points to end at 4.0200 and Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS) was up 0.82% or 0.100 points to 12.300 in late trade.
Biggest losers included J. Martins SGPS (LS:JMT), which lost 0.74% or 0.1300 points to trade at 17.3250 in late trade. Galp Energia Nom (LS:GALP) declined 0.65% or 0.1050 points to end at 16.1000 and Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP) shed 0.65% or 0.0019 points to 0.2891.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 19 to 16 and 6 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for March delivery was down 1.27% or 0.89 to $69.37 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.72% or 0.46 to hit $63.84 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.02% or 0.30 to trade at $1334.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.20% to 1.2241, while EUR/GBP fell 0.06% to 0.8888.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 90.37.