Investing.com – Nigeria stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 rose 0.69%.
The best performers of the session on the NSE 30 were Tiger Branded Consumer Goods PLC (LAGOS:TIGERBRD), which rose 9.02% or 0.33 points to trade at 3.99 at the close. Meanwhile, Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB) added 4.48% or 0.06 points to end at 1.40 and Wemabank (LAGOS:WEMABAN) was up 4.05% or 0.030 points to 0.780 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Pz Cussons LG (LAGOS:PZ), which fell 3.19% or 0.68 points to trade at 20.97 at the close. Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG) declined 1.86% or 0.11 points to end at 5.80 and Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) was down 1.13% or 0.04 points to 3.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lagos Stock Exchange by 27 to 11 and 51 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 1.11% or 0.49 to $44.81 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 1.29% or 0.58 to hit $45.59 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 1.74% or 22.15 to trade at $1294.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.01% to 227.650, while USD/NGN fell 0.08% to 199.000.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.09% at 93.65.