Investing.com – Nigeria stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Insurance and Banking sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 lost 0.55%.
The best performers of the session on the NSE 30 were Tiger Branded Consumer Goods PLC (LAGOS:TIGERBRD), which rose 6.22% or 0.26 points to trade at 4.59 at the close. Meanwhile, Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB) added 9.52% or 0.14 points to end at 1.61 and Wemabank (LAGOS:WEMABAN) was up 6.67% or 0.050 points to 0.800 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO), which fell 2.80% or 2.00 points to trade at 69.39 at the close. Fidelitybk (LAGOS:FIDELIT) declined 2.56% or 0.03 points to end at 1.14 and Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH) was down 1.45% or 0.05 points to 3.40.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lagos Stock Exchange by 31 to 18 and 41 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 2.16% or 0.94 to $44.38 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 3.58% or 1.56 to hit $45.19 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.34% or 4.25 to trade at $1262.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.14% to 226.400, while USD/NGN rose 0.03% to 199.155.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.11% at 94.24.