Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Retail, Banking and Utilities sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite lost 0.20%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr), which rose 5.77% or 0.006 points to trade at 0.110 at the close. Quest Holdings (AT:IQTr) added 3.21% or 0.160 points to end at 5.150 and Iktinos Hellas (AT:IKTr) was up 2.94% or 0.0280 points to 0.9800 in late trade.
Biggest losers included National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr), which lost 10.00% or 0.02 points to trade at 0.18 in late trade. Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) declined 9.68% or 0.0150 points to end at 0.1400 and Elinoil Hellenic Petroleum Company SA (AT:ELIr) shed 9.45% or 0.0830 points to 0.7950.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 46 to 41 and 11 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.06% or 0.75 to $1356.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 2.02% or 0.84 to hit $40.76 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 1.93% or 0.84 to trade at $42.69 a barrel.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.00% to 1.1174, while EUR/GBP rose 0.12% to 0.8457.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.09% at 95.62.