Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Telecoms, Basic Materials and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 fell 0.43%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were J. Martins SGPS (LS:JMT), which rose 0.60% or 0.0850 points to trade at 14.3400 at the close. Meanwhile, CTT Correios de Portugal SA (LS:CTT) added 0.46% or 0.0140 points to end at 3.0300 and Ibersol SGPS (LS:IBS) was up 0.44% or 0.050 points to 11.400 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Pharol SGPS SA (LS:PHRA), which fell 3.67% or 0.0072 points to trade at 0.1890 at the close. Mota Engil (LS:MOTA) declined 1.84% or 0.0650 points to end at 3.4600 and F.Rama (LS:RAMA) was down 1.54% or 0.200 points to 12.800.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 25 to 9 and 5 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for June delivery was down 1.17% or 0.85 to $71.73 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 1.28% or 0.86 to hit $66.53 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.29% or 3.90 to trade at $1351.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.39% to 1.2378, while EUR/GBP fell 0.27% to 0.8639.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.38% at 89.17.