Investing.com – Portugal stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Industrials and Financials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 rose 1.33%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Altri SGPS (LISBON:ALSS), which rose 5.94% or 0.2235 points to trade at 3.9885 at the close. Meanwhile, Banco BPI (LISBON:BBPI) added 4.12% or 0.0450 points to end at 1.1380 and Semapa (LISBON:SEM) was up 3.48% or 0.4325 points to 12.8725 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nos SGPS SA (LISBON:NOS), which fell 0.94% or 0.0720 points to trade at 7.5500 at the close. Galp Energia Nom (LISBON:GALP) added 0.39% or 0.0425 points to end at 10.8125 and REN (LISBON:RENE) was up 0.66% or 0.0175 points to 2.6675.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 60 to 6 and 4 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for September delivery was up 0.17% or 0.10 to $57.22 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.41% or 0.21 to hit $51.20 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.33% or 3.80 to trade at $1143.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.65% to 1.0879, while EUR/GBP fell 0.44% to 0.6972.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.48% at 97.75.