Portugal stocks higher at close of trade; PSI up 0.54%

Investing.com – Portugal stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Financials , Technology and Consumer Goods sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Lisbon, the PSI gained 0.54%.

The best performers of the session on the PSI were Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA (ELI:JMT ), which rose 2.21% or 0.39 points to trade at 18.03 at the close. Meanwhile, Galp Energia Nom (ELI:GALP ) added 1.94% or 0.32 points to end at 16.55 and EDP Renovaveis (ELI:EDPR ) was up 1.29% or 0.20 points to 15.68 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Banco Comercial Portugues (ELI:BCP ), which fell 1.83% or 0.01 points to trade at 0.41 at the close. CTT Correios de Portugal SA (ELI:CTT ) declined 0.91% or 0.04 points to end at 4.38 and Greenvolt Energias Renovaveis SA (ELI:GVOLT ) was down 0.36% or 0.03 points to 8.31.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 20 to 9 and 3 ended unchanged.

Brent oil for December delivery was up 0.80% or 0.57 to $71.66 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 1.02% or 0.69 to hit $68.36 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.89% or 23.85 to trade at $2,671.05 a troy ounce.

EUR/USD was unchanged 0.17% to 1.12, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.02% to 0.83.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 100.21.

Source: Investing.com