Investing.com – Portugal stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Utilities and Technology sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 rose 0.33%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS), which rose 2.37% or 0.335 points to trade at 14.490 at the close. Meanwhile, J. Martins SGPS (LS:JMT) added 1.60% or 0.2750 points to end at 17.4600 and Mota Engil (LS:MOTA) was up 1.27% or 0.0300 points to 2.3840 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sonae (LS:YSO), which fell 0.53% or 0.0050 points to trade at 0.9440 at the close. CTT Correios de Portugal SA (LS:CTT) declined 0.37% or 0.0200 points to end at 5.4150 and Nos SGPS SA (LS:NOS) was down 0.23% or 0.0120 points to 5.3110.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 22 to 11 and 6 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for September delivery was up 0.73% or 0.34 to $47.05 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.75% or 0.33 to hit $44.56 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.17% or 2.09 to trade at $1211.79 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.02% to 1.1397, while EUR/GBP rose 0.08% to 0.8851.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.06% at 95.84.