Investing.com – Portugal stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials , Basic Materials and Industrials sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Lisbon, the PSI added 0.68%.

The best performers of the session on the PSI were CTT Correios de Portugal SA (ELI: CTT ), which rose 4.27% or 0.19 points to trade at 4.64 at the close. Meanwhile, Ibersol SGPS (ELI: IBS ) added 3.37% or 0.24 points to end at 7.36 and Semapa (ELI: SEM ) was up 2.21% or 0.30 points to 13.90 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were EDP Renovaveis (ELI: EDPR ), which fell 2.22% or 0.24 points to trade at 10.56 at the close. EDP Energias de Portugal SA (ELI: EDP ) declined 0.80% or 0.03 points to end at 3.35 and Ren Redes Energeticas Nacionais SGPS SA (ELI: RENE ) was down 0.41% or 0.01 points to 2.40.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lisbon Stock Exchange by 15 to 11 and 3 ended unchanged.

Brent oil for February delivery was up 2.66% or 1.91 to $73.74 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 2.98% or 2.03 to hit $70.13 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.43% or 11.31 to trade at $2,669.81 a troy ounce.

EUR/USD was unchanged 0.21% to 1.05, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.05% to 0.83.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.19% at 106.22.