Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Food, Household and Healthcare sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite added 0.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Coca Cola HBC AG (AT:EEEr), which rose 3.95% or 1.0650 points to trade at 27.9950 at the close. Elton S.A. (AT:ELNr) added 3.21% or 0.050 points to end at 1.610 and J. & P. Avax (AT:AVAr) was up 2.80% or 0.024 points to 0.881 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Autohellas (AT:AUTr), which lost 4.00% or 1.00 points to trade at 24.20 in late trade. Centric Hold (AT:DESr) declined 2.81% or 0.005 points to end at 0.173 and Elvalhalcor Hellenic Copper and Aluminium Industry SA (AT:ELHA) shed 2.69% or 0.050 points to 1.810.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 60 to 56 and 13 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.27% or 3.60 to $1358.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.34% or 0.21 to hit $61.55 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.76% or 0.49 to trade at $64.82 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.38% to 1.2456, while EUR/GBP fell 0.17% to 0.8855.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.31% at 88.74.