Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Banking, Telecoms and Retail sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite added 1.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Centric Hold (AT:DESr), which rose 10.17% or 0.012 points to trade at 0.130 at the close. Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr) added 4.17% or 0.100 points to end at 2.500 and Creta Plastics (AT:PLAKR) was up 4.07% or 0.250 points to 6.500 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr), which lost 8.43% or 0.021 points to trade at 0.228 in late trade. Select Textile (AT:EPIr) declined 6.21% or 0.010 points to end at 0.151 and Korres (AT:KRRr) shed 3.23% or 0.150 points to 4.500.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 80 to 30 and 11 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.62% or 7.70 to $1249.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.63% or 0.36 to hit $56.78 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.06% or 0.67 to trade at $62.67 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.18% to 1.1763, while EUR/GBP fell 0.20% to 0.8799.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 93.86.