Investing.com – Portugal equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financials, Consumer Goods and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lisbon, the PSI 20 fell 3.81% to hit a new 3-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSI 20 were J. Martins SGPS (LISBON:JMT), which fell 1.02% or 0.1150 points to trade at 11.1750 at the close. REN (LISBON:RENE) fell 2.67% or 0.0685 points to end at 2.4965 and Banif SA (LISBON:BANIF) was down 3.13% or 0.0002 points to 0.0062 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Comercial Portugues (LISBON:BCP), which lost 6.98% or 0.0054 points to trade at 0.0720 in late trade. Altri SGPS (LISBON:ALSS) declined 6.26% or 0.2175 points to end at 3.2575 and Banco BPI (LISBON:BBPI) shed 5.50% or 0.0570 points to 0.9800.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 64 to 5 and 1 ended unchanged on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Brent oil for August delivery was down 4.30% or 2.60 to $57.73 a barrel. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 3.44% or 1.91 to hit $53.61 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.04% or 0.50 to trade at $1167.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.30% to 1.1078, while EUR/GBP fell 0.68% to 0.7091.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.09% at 96.29.