Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Financials, Industrials and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 fell 0.56%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were REN (LISBON:RENE), which rose 1.41% or 0.0385 points to trade at 2.7695 at the close. Meanwhile, Semapa (LISBON:SEM) added 0.91% or 0.1250 points to end at 13.9100 and Portucel (LISBON:PTI) was up 0.84% or 0.0340 points to 4.0840 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Mota Engil (LISBON:MOTA), which fell 5.36% or 0.1550 points to trade at 2.7350 at the close. Banif SA (LISBON:BANIF) declined 2.63% or 0.0002 points to end at 0.0074 and Portugal Telecom (LISBON:PTC) was down 2.30% or 0.0115 points to 0.4895.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 42 to 29 and 3 ended unchanged.
Shares in Portugal Telecom (LISBON:PTC) fell to all time lows; down 2.30% or 0.0115 to 0.4895.
Brent oil for July delivery was up 1.29% or 0.82 to $64.84 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.41% or 0.82 to hit $58.81 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 0.14% or 1.70 to trade at $1208.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.56% to 1.1088, while EUR/GBP fell 0.74% to 0.7131.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.34% at 95.69.