Investing.com – Nigeria stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Food, Beverages & Tobacco, Banking and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lagos, the NSE 30 rose 0.51%.
The best performers of the session on the NSE 30 were Union Bank LG (LAGOS:UBN), which rose 5.00% or 0.27 points to trade at 5.67 at the close. Meanwhile, Unilever Nig (LAGOS:UNILEVE) added 4.98% or 1.81 points to end at 38.19 and Dangsugar (LAGOS:DANGSUG) was up 4.39% or 0.38 points to 9.04 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Wapco (LAGOS:WAPCO), which fell 3.85% or 2.00 points to trade at 50.00 at the close. Dangote Flour Mills PLC (LAGOS:DANGFLOUR) declined 2.20% or 0.11 points to end at 4.88 and Zenithbank (LAGOS:ZENITHB) was down 1.91% or 0.42 points to 21.53.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lagos by 42 to 40 and 17 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.13% or 0.06 to $46.08 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.29% or 0.14 to hit $48.56 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.68% or 8.33 to trade at $1242.03 a troy ounce.
EUR/NGN was up 3.58% to 363.540, while USD/NGN fell 10.29% to 314.450.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.54% at 94.41.