Investing.com – Nigeria stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 rose 0.97%.
The best performers of the session on the NSE 30 were Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR), which rose 7.63% or 0.29 points to trade at 4.09 at the close. Meanwhile, Total Nig (LAGOS:TOTAL) added 5.00% or 13.80 points to end at 289.85 and Access Bank (LAGOS:ACCESS) was up 2.04% or 0.11 points to 5.51 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN), which fell 4.70% or 0.21 points to trade at 4.26 at the close. Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) declined 3.49% or 0.030 points to end at 0.850 and Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES) was down 2.95% or 2.30 points to 75.25.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lagos Stock Exchange by 23 to 14 and 67 ended unchanged.
Shares in Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES) fell to all time lows; down 2.95% or 2.30 to 75.25.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.11% or 0.06 to $52.89 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.13% or 0.07 to hit $55.76 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.63% or 7.35 to trade at $1158.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 3.89% to 336.380, while USD/NGN fell 0.55% to 314.750.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.06% at 101.06.