Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Industrials, Technology and Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 fell 1.01%.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Banco BPI (LISBON:BBPI), which rose 1.75% or 0.0250 points to trade at 1.4500 at the close. Meanwhile, Nos SGPS SA (LISBON:NOS) added 0.79% or 0.0530 points to end at 6.7570 and Banco Comercial Portugues (LISBON:BCP) was down 0.12% or 0.0001 points to 0.0850 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sonae (LISBON:YSO), which fell 5.11% or 0.0700 points to trade at 1.2990 at the close. Mota Engil (LISBON:MOTA) declined 4.02% or 0.1305 points to end at 3.1195 and Altri SGPS (LISBON:ALSS) was down 3.06% or 0.1245 points to 3.9415.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 62 to 7 and 2 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for June delivery was up 1.88% or 1.17 to $63.24 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.28% or 0.16 to hit $56.77 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 1.21% or 14.50 to trade at $1188.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.07% to 1.0729, while EUR/GBP fell 0.76% to 0.7137.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.01% at 98.22.