Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Banking, Financials and Retail sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite rose 1.68%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Centric Hold (AT:DESr), which rose 12.88% or 0.017 points to trade at 0.149 at the close. National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) added 8.41% or 0.019 points to end at 0.245 and Eurobank Ergasias SA (AT:EURBr) was up 5.26% or 0.028 points to 0.560 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Flexopack SA (AT:FLXr), which lost 5.33% or 0.3200 points to trade at 5.7000 in late trade. Athens Medical (AT:AMCr) declined 1.64% or 0.020 points to end at 1.200 and Profile Syst (AT:PRFr) shed 1.06% or 0.007 points to 0.653.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 75 to 29 and 8 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.75% or 9.60 to $1287.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 2.36% or 1.30 to hit $56.44 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 1.94% or 1.19 to trade at $62.55 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.12% to 1.1784, while EUR/GBP fell 0.02% to 0.8920.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 93.68.