Investing.com – Nigeria equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 lost 0.63%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the NSE 30 were Fbn Holdings (LAGOS:FBNH), which rose 2.90% or 0.180 points to trade at 6.380 at the close. Total Nig (LAGOS:TOTAL) added 2.90% or 7.90 points to end at 280.00 and Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR) was up 2.81% or 0.14 points to 5.13 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE), which lost 9.74% or 3.98 points to trade at 36.87 in late trade. Guiness Nig (LAGOS:GUINNES) declined 4.96% or 3.55 points to end at 67.95 and Diamond Bank (LAGOS:DIAMONB) shed 4.62% or 0.060 points to 1.240.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 54 to 31 and 28 ended unchanged on the Lagos.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 1.87% or 0.84 to $45.77 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 1.72% or 0.82 to hit $48.45 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.25% or 3.07 to trade at $1242.73 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was down 0.19% to 358.900, while USD/NGN rose 0.14% to 350.000.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.16% at 95.47.