Portugal Stock Market Update

Investing.com – Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, with losses in the Consumer Services, Telecoms, and Financials sectors leading shares down.

At the close in Lisbon, the PSI lost 0.80%.

Best Performers

The best performers of the session on the PSI were:
– Galp Energia Nom (ELI:GALP): rose 0.77% or 0.13 points to trade at 16.93 at the close.
– Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA (ELI:JMT): added 0.62% or 0.11 points to end at 17.75.
– Altri SGPS SA (ELI:ALSS): was up 0.50% or 0.03 points to 5.05 in late trade.

Worst Performers

The worst performers were:
– Banco Comercial Portugues (ELI:BCP): fell 4.54% or 0.02 points to trade at 0.39.
– Mota Engil SGPS SA (ELI:MOTA): declined 3.90% or 0.10 points to end at 2.47.
– CTT Correios de Portugal SA (ELI:CTT): was down 1.14% or 0.05 points to 4.34.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 13 to 11, with 8 ending unchanged.

Commodities Update

• Brent oil for December delivery was up 3.84% or 2.75 to $74.45 a barrel.
• Crude oil for November rose 4.15% or 2.83 to hit $71.00 a barrel.
• December Gold Futures contract rose 1.03% or 27.35 to trade at $2,686.75 a troy ounce.

Currency Update

• EUR/USD was down 0.61% to 1.11.
• EUR/GBP was unchanged 0.07% to 0.83.
• The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 100.97.