Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Banking, Healthcare and Travel sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite lost 1.30% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Lykos Inform. (AT:LYKr), which rose 10.00% or 0.05 points to trade at 0.52 at the close. Meanwhile, Iktinos Hellas (AT:IKTr) added 5.94% or 0.06 points to end at 1.07 and FHL I Kiriakidis Marbles and Granites SA (AT:KRKr) was up 5.75% or 0.130 points to 2.390 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr), which fell 10.00% or 0.04 points to trade at 0.41 at the close. Hygeia (AT:HYGr) declined 5.30% or 0.007 points to end at 0.125 and Public Power (AT:DEHr) was down 5.13% or 0.25 points to 4.62.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 57 to 38 and 8 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.61% or 6.60 to $1078.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.03% or 0.87 to hit $42.06 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.87% or 0.87 to trade at $45.74 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.12% to 1.0756, while EUR/GBP rose 0.21% to 0.7076.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.05% at 99.00.