Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Household, Healthcare and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite rose 1.71%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which rose 14.58% or 0.035 points to trade at 0.275 at the close. Jumbo SA (AT:BABr) added 8.01% or 1.105 points to end at 14.905 and Autohellas (AT:AUTr) was up 4.76% or 1.00 points to 22.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Intralot (AT:INLr), which lost 0.81% or 0.010 points to trade at 1.230 in late trade. Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) declined 0.54% or 0.010 points to end at 1.860 and Hellenic Telec (AT:OTEr) shed 0.28% or 0.03 points to 10.80.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 88 to 18 and 12 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.01% or 0.18 to $1279.52 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.57% or 0.27 to hit $47.28 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.12% or 0.06 to trade at $50.74 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.25% to 1.1705, while EUR/GBP fell 0.21% to 0.9099.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 93.89.