Portugal stocks lower at close of trade; PSI down 0.80%

Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Consumer Services , Telecoms and Financials sectors led shares lower.

At the close in Lisbon, the PSI lost 0.80%.

The best performers of the session on the PSI were Galp Energia Nom (ELI:GALP ), which rose 0.77% or 0.13 points to trade at 16.93 at the close. Meanwhile, Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA (ELI:JMT ) added 0.62% or 0.11 points to end at 17.75 and Altri SGPS SA (ELI:ALSS ) was up 0.50% or 0.03 points to 5.05 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Banco Comercial Portugues (ELI:BCP ), which fell 4.54% or 0.02 points to trade at 0.39 at the close. Mota Engil SGPS SA (ELI:MOTA ) declined 3.90% or 0.10 points to end at 2.47 and CTT Correios de Portugal SA (ELI:CTT ) was down 1.14% or 0.05 points to 4.34.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 13 to 11 and 8 ended unchanged.

Brent oil for December delivery was up 3.84% or 2.75 to $74.45 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 4.15% or 2.83 to hit $71.00 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 1.03% or 27.35 to trade at $2,686.75 a troy ounce.

EUR/USD was down 0.61% to 1.11, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.07% to 0.83.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 100.97.

Source: Investing.com