Investing.com – Nigeria stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Insurance, Banking and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 lost 0.29%.
The best performers of the session on the NSE 30 were Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN), which rose 10.00% or 0.06 points to trade at 0.66 at the close. Meanwhile, Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) added 3.33% or 0.18 points to end at 5.58 and Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB) was up 2.22% or 0.040 points to 1.800 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO), which fell 5.08% or 3.38 points to trade at 63.22 at the close. Tiger Branded Consumer Goods PLC (LAGOS:TIGERBRD) declined 3.45% or 0.15 points to end at 4.20 and Wemabank (LAGOS:WEMABAN) was down 2.67% or 0.020 points to 0.730.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lagos Stock Exchange by 27 to 10 and 54 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was down 1.65% or 0.77 to $45.88 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 1.53% or 0.73 to hit $46.88 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.07% or 0.95 to trade at $1328.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 1.33% to 312.450, while USD/NGN rose 0.41% to 282.640.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.17% at 96.54.