Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms, Travel and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite gained 0.42%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr), which rose 14.44% or 0.013 points to trade at 0.103 at the close. Marfin Invest (AT:MRFr) added 6.45% or 0.008 points to end at 0.132 and Halcor (AT:XAKO) was up 4.39% or 0.041 points to 0.974 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr), which lost 10.68% or 0.036 points to trade at 0.301 in late trade. Fourlis Hld (AT:FRLr) declined 3.84% or 0.220 points to end at 5.510 and Centric Hold (AT:DESr) shed 3.68% or 0.006 points to 0.157.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 52 to 47 and 11 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.10% or 14.69 to $1353.69 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.43% or 0.21 to hit $48.95 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 0.20% or 0.11 to trade at $54.09 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.92% to 1.2027, while EUR/GBP rose 0.39% to 0.9173.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.82% at 91.45.