Investing.com – Portugal stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Industrials and Basic Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 gained 0.45% to hit a new 52-week high.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were CTT Correios de Portugal SA (LS:CTT), which rose 2.40% or 0.1300 points to trade at 5.5480 at the close. Meanwhile, Nos SGPS SA (LS:NOS) added 1.32% or 0.0720 points to end at 5.5150 and Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS) was up 1.18% or 0.0510 points to 4.3910 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Novabase SGPS (LS:NBA), which fell 1.85% or 0.061 points to trade at 3.239 at the close. Sonae Capital (LS:SONAC) declined 0.91% or 0.0080 points to end at 0.8740 and J. Martins SGPS (LS:JMT) was down 0.90% or 0.1600 points to 17.5600.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 23 to 14 and 6 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for August delivery was up 0.81% or 0.41 to $51.17 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.22% or 0.59 to hit $48.91 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.70% or 8.88 to trade at $1263.12 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.33% to 1.1207, while EUR/GBP fell 0.29% to 0.8699.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 97.18.