Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Consumer Services and Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 fell 1.97% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the PSI 20 were Impresa SGPS (LISBON:IMPA), which rose 1.22% or 0.01 points to trade at 0.83 at the close. Meanwhile, Altri SGPS (LISBON:ALSS) fell 0.40% or 0.0165 points to end at 4.0645 and EDP (LISBON:EDP) was down 0.52% or 0.0185 points to 3.5175 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Portucel (LISBON:PTI), which fell 4.55% or 0.1815 points to trade at 3.8065 at the close. Banif SA (LISBON:BANIF) declined 4.11% or 0.0003 points to end at 0.0070 and Sonae (LISBON:YSO) was down 3.58% or 0.0440 points to 1.1860.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 56 to 13 and 4 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for July delivery was down 3.21% or 2.10 to $63.41 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 3.11% or 1.86 to hit $57.86 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 1.49% or 18.00 to trade at $1186.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.83% to 1.0887, while EUR/GBP fell 0.42% to 0.7066.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.86% at 97.29.