Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Industrials, Financials and Consumer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 declined 1.20%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which unchanged 0.00% or 0.0000 points to trade at 0.1800 at the close. Meanwhile, Montepio (LS:MPIO) unchanged 0.00% or 0.000 points to end at 0.474 and The Navigator Company SA (LS:NVGR) was down 0.17% or 0.0050 points to 2.9760 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sonae (LS:YSO), which fell 3.60% or 0.0250 points to trade at 0.6700 at the close. Sonae Capital (LS:SONAC) declined 2.74% or 0.0180 points to end at 0.6390 and Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP) was down 2.09% or 0.0004 points to 0.0187.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 39 to 10 and 4 ended unchanged.
Shares in Montepio (LS:MPIO) unchanged to all time lows; unchanged 0.00% or 0.000 to 0.474.
Brent oil for October delivery was up 1.32% or 0.64 to $48.99 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 1.49% or 0.68 to hit $46.42 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.33% or 4.45 to trade at $1351.95 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.75% to 1.1267, while EUR/GBP fell 0.43% to 0.8647.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.76% at 94.85.