Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 declined 0.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR), which rose 9.62% or 0.40 points to trade at 4.57 at the close. Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) added 5.00% or 0.040 points to end at 0.840 and Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) was up 0.65% or 0.020 points to 3.100 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO), which unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to trade at 47.50 in late trade. Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) declined 0.96% or 0.06 points to end at 6.22 and Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES) shed 0.74% or 0.45 points to 60.05.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 16 to 14 and 59 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.75% or 0.39 to $52.09 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.42% or 0.23 to hit $55.12 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.59% or 7.35 to trade at $1260.65 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 2.85% to 326.070, while USD/NGN unchanged 0.00% to 317.500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.43% at 101.04.