Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Travel, Telecoms and Media sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite declined 0.12%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Hygeia (AT:HYGr), which rose 8.81% or 0.020 points to trade at 0.247 at the close. Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) added 5.13% or 0.008 points to end at 0.165 and Profile Syst (AT:PRFr) was up 4.67% or 0.023 points to 0.516 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Flexopack SA (AT:FLXr), which lost 4.05% or 0.1500 points to trade at 3.6700 in late trade. Intralot (AT:INLr) declined 3.42% or 0.040 points to end at 1.130 and Revoil Petrol (AT:REVr) shed 2.51% or 0.008 points to 0.311.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 56 to 50 and 18 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.61% or 7.35 to $1202.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 2.37% or 1.19 to hit $49.09 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 2.24% or 1.19 to trade at $51.92 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.28% to 1.0570, while EUR/GBP rose 0.44% to 0.8701.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 102.04.