Investing.com – Portugal stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Industrials and Consumer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 rose 0.36%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS), which rose 1.84% or 0.200 points to trade at 11.050 at the close. Meanwhile, Altri SGPS (LS:ALSS) added 1.61% or 0.1400 points to end at 8.8300 and Sonae (LS:YSO) was up 1.52% or 0.0170 points to 1.1370 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sonae Capital (LS:SONAC), which fell 0.64% or 0.0060 points to trade at 0.9300 at the close. Galp Energia Nom (LS:GALP) declined 0.52% or 0.0850 points to end at 16.1700 and Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA) was down 0.39% or 0.0010 points to 0.2560.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 17 to 14 and 5 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for August delivery was up 0.63% or 0.48 to $76.36 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.29% or 0.19 to hit $66.55 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.17% or 2.20 to trade at $1301.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.34% to 1.1785, while EUR/GBP rose 0.27% to 0.8808.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 93.59.