Portugal stocks lower at close of trade; PSI down 0.07%

Portugal stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Telecoms, Consumer Services and Financials sectors led shares lower.

At the close in Lisbon, the PSI fell 0.07%.

The best performers of the session on the PSI were Edp Renewables SA (ELI:EDPR), which rose 5.84% or 0.80 points to trade at 14.49 at the close. Meanwhile, Mota Engil SGPS SA (ELI:MOTA) added 1.49% or 0.07 points to end at 4.51 and Altri SGPS SA (ELI:ALSS) was up 0.96% or 0.04 points to 4.22 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Galp Energia Nom (ELI:GALP), which fell 3.15% or 0.62 points to trade at 19.08 at the close. Sonae SGPS SA (ELI:YSO) declined 2.20% or 0.05 points to end at 2.23 and Nos SGPS SA (ELI:NOS) was down 1.54% or 0.09 points to 5.44.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 16 to 11 and 4 ended unchanged.

Brent oil for January delivery was down 0.96% or 0.94 to $97.35 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.59% or 0.53 to hit $89.99 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.09% or 44.65 to trade at $4,068.85 a troy ounce.

EUR/USD was down 0.61% to 1.12, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.05% to 0.83.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.63% at 102.06.