Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Telecoms, Basic Materials and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 fell 0.43%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were J. Martins SGPS (LS:JMT), which rose 0.60% or 0.0850 points to trade at 14.3400 at the close. CTT Correios de Portugal SA (LS:CTT) added 0.46% or 0.0140 points to end at 3.0300 and Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS) was up 0.44% or 0.050 points to 11.400 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which lost 3.67% or 0.0072 points to trade at 0.1890 in late trade. Mota Engil (LS:MOTA) declined 1.84% or 0.0650 points to end at 3.4600 and F.Rama (LS:RAMA) shed 1.54% or 0.200 points to 12.800.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 25 to 9 and 5 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for June delivery was down 1.17% or 0.85 to $71.73 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 1.28% or 0.86 to hit $66.53 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.29% or 3.90 to trade at $1351.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.39% to 1.2378, while EUR/GBP fell 0.27% to 0.8639.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.38% at 89.17.