Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite rose 1.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Profile Syst (AT:PRFr), which rose 11.91% or 0.096 points to trade at 0.902 at the close. Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) added 10.48% or 0.037 points to end at 0.390 and Eurobank Ergasias SA (AT:EURBr) was up 7.14% or 0.0600 points to 0.9000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Revoil Petrol (AT:REVr), which lost 3.17% or 0.020 points to trade at 0.610 in late trade. Folli Follie (AT:HDFr) declined 2.33% or 0.46 points to end at 19.28 and Greek Organisation of Football Prognostics SA (AT:OPAr) shed 2.17% or 0.240 points to 10.810.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 82 to 41 and 8 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.46% or 6.10 to $1341.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.59% or 0.38 to hit $64.12 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.47% or 0.32 to trade at $68.20 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.28% to 1.2438, while EUR/GBP fell 0.11% to 0.8756.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.22% at 88.82.