Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Banking, Financials and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite lost 0.91%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Iaso (AT:IASr), which rose 7.06% or 0.036 points to trade at 0.550 at the close. Quest Holdings (AT:IQTr) added 6.82% or 0.27 points to end at 4.23 and Halcor (AT:XAKO) was up 6.41% or 0.015 points to 0.249 in late trade.
Biggest losers included National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr), which lost 8.70% or 0.02 points to trade at 0.21 in late trade. Eurobank Ergasias SA (AT:EURBr) declined 8.60% or 0.061 points to end at 0.648 and Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr) shed 6.25% or 0.012 points to 0.180.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 54 to 39 and 13 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was down 0.96% or 12.10 to $1248.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.14% or 0.06 to hit $42.11 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.09% or 0.04 to trade at $44.65 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.85% to 1.1286, while EUR/GBP fell 0.59% to 0.7935.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.71% at 94.69.