Investing.com – Nigeria equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 added 0.95%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE), which rose 4.66% or 1.49 points to trade at 31.13 at the close. Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN) added 2.04% or 0.10 points to end at 4.66 and Zenithbank (LAGOS:ZENITHB) was up 1.60% or 0.22 points to 14.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Uacn Prop (LAGOS:UACN), which lost 2.26% or 0.30 points to trade at 13.00 in late trade. Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES) declined 1.32% or 0.80 points to end at 63.00 and Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) shed 1.25% or 0.010 points to 0.790.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 24 to 9 and 67 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 1.51% or 0.75 to $50.26 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.97% or 0.51 to hit $53.05 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.74% or 9.25 to trade at $1244.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.41% to 329.820, while USD/NGN unchanged 0.00% to 317.500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 100.23.