Investing.com – Portugal stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Telecoms and Technology sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 rose 0.39%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS), which rose 3.44% or 0.1220 points to trade at 3.6720 at the close. Meanwhile, The Navigator Company SA (LS:NVGR) added 2.52% or 0.0720 points to end at 2.9260 and Sonae Capital (LS:SONAC) was up 2.00% or 0.0140 points to 0.7150 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nos SGPS SA (LS:NOS), which fell 1.51% or 0.0840 points to trade at 5.4710 at the close. Galp Energia Nom (LS:GALP) declined 0.86% or 0.1100 points to end at 12.6400 and Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA) was down 0.55% or 0.0010 points to 0.1810.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 29 to 15 and 5 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for January delivery was down 3.16% or 1.55 to $47.45 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 3.32% or 1.59 to hit $46.37 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.77% or 9.15 to trade at $1180.15 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.41% to 1.0597, while EUR/GBP rose 0.28% to 0.8503.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.26% at 101.51.