Investing.com – Portugal stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Telecoms, Financials and Consumer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 gained 0.65%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Banco Comercial Portugues (LS:BCP), which rose 2.07% or 0.0048 points to trade at 0.2362 at the close. Meanwhile, Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA) added 1.97% or 0.0060 points to end at 0.3100 and Mota Engil (LS:MOTA) was up 1.60% or 0.0410 points to 2.6080 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS), which fell 1.58% or 0.230 points to trade at 14.370 at the close. Novabase SGPS (LS:NBA) declined 1.21% or 0.039 points to end at 3.171 and EDP (LS:EDP) was down 0.91% or 0.0270 points to 2.9440.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 28 to 9 and 5 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for September delivery was up 0.59% or 0.27 to $46.02 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.86% or 0.37 to hit $43.38 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.95% or 11.88 to trade at $1244.52 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.07% to 1.1187, while EUR/GBP fell 0.03% to 0.8796.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 97.05.