Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Media, Financials and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite lost 0.49%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which rose 5.26% or 0.010 points to trade at 0.200 at the close. Hellenic Telec (AT:OTEr) added 2.72% or 0.28 points to end at 10.58 and Iaso (AT:IASr) was up 2.64% or 0.019 points to 0.743 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr), which lost 12.40% or 0.015 points to trade at 0.106 in late trade. Centric Hold (AT:DESr) declined 9.23% or 0.012 points to end at 0.118 and Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr) shed 4.13% or 0.010 points to 0.232.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 62 to 40 and 12 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.11% or 1.42 to $1259.98 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.33% or 0.17 to hit $51.30 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.28% or 0.15 to trade at $54.02 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.05% to 1.1231, while EUR/GBP fell 0.14% to 0.8631.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 96.86.