Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Food, Banking and Retail sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite declined 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Flexopack SA (AT:FLXr), which rose 6.12% or 0.1500 points to trade at 2.6000 at the close. Hell.Exchanges (AT:EXCr) added 5.96% or 0.28 points to end at 4.98 and Centric Hold (AT:DESr) was up 4.85% or 0.005 points to 0.108 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lykos Inform. (AT:LYKr), which lost 9.90% or 0.05 points to trade at 0.45 in late trade. Alpha Bank SA (AT:ACBr) declined 4.00% or 0.080 points to end at 1.920 and Autohellas (AT:AUTr) shed 3.34% or 0.38 points to 11.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 46 to 39 and 9 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 1.04% or 13.05 to $1263.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.26% or 0.12 to hit $45.45 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.58% or 0.27 to trade at $47.20 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.05% to 1.1317, while EUR/GBP fell 0.26% to 0.7766.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.40% at 94.00.