Investing.com – Nigeria stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Insurance sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 gained 0.04%.
The best performers of the session on the NSE 30 were Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS), which rose 4.99% or 0.33 points to trade at 6.82 at the close. Meanwhile, Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN) added 3.81% or 0.18 points to end at 4.90 and Zenithbank (LAGOS:ZENITHB) was up 2.93% or 0.44 points to 15.45 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nig Brew (LAGOS:NB), which fell 2.90% or 3.73 points to trade at 125.00 at the close. Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) declined 2.35% or 0.020 points to end at 0.860 and Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) was down 0.63% or 0.020 points to 3.130.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lagos by 19 to 10 and 77 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for March delivery was up 2.02% or 1.07 to $54.07 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 2.14% or 1.19 to hit $56.82 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.13% or 1.55 to trade at $1235.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.38% to 334.360, while USD/NGN fell 1.02% to 314.250.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 100.67.