Investing.com – Nigeria stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Banking, Food, Beverages & Tobacco and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 rose 1.65%.
The best performers of the session on the NSE 30 were Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB), which rose 6.19% or 0.070 points to trade at 1.200 at the close. Meanwhile, Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) added 5.00% or 0.060 points to end at 1.260 and Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO) was up 4.86% or 2.36 points to 50.96 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE), which fell 4.98% or 2.14 points to trade at 40.85 at the close. Skye Bank (LAGOS:SKYEBAN) declined 4.48% or 0.030 points to end at 0.640 and Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN) was down 4.44% or 0.26 points to 5.59.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lagos by 46 to 43 and 23 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 1.02% or 0.45 to $44.69 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 1.17% or 0.55 to hit $47.47 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.27% or 3.38 to trade at $1250.28 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 0.83% to 357.960, while USD/NGN fell 10.06% to 315.250.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.43% at 95.77.