Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financials, Telecoms and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 declined 0.56%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP), which rose 3.28% or 0.0055 points to trade at 0.1734 at the close. Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA) unchanged 0.00% or 0.0000 points to end at 0.2910 and Galp Energia Nom (LS:GALP) was down 0.04% or 0.0050 points to 13.8350 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco BPI (LS:BBPI), which lost 2.21% or 0.0250 points to trade at 1.1060 in late trade. Sonae (LS:YSO) declined 2.06% or 0.0170 points to end at 0.8070 and Mota Engil (LS:MOTA) shed 2.00% or 0.0330 points to 1.6160.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 26 to 10 and 8 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for April delivery was down 1.25% or 0.71 to $56.10 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.97% or 0.52 to hit $53.31 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.89% or 10.90 to trade at $1231.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.42% to 1.0738, while EUR/GBP fell 0.27% to 0.8619.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.33% at 100.02.