Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Healthcare and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite rose 2.40%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which rose 27.32% or 0.053 points to trade at 0.247 at the close. Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr) added 18.49% or 0.440 points to end at 2.820 and Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr) was up 12.07% or 0.007 points to 0.065 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AS Company SA (AT:ASCr), which lost 2.16% or 0.030 points to trade at 1.360 in late trade. Lamda Develop (AT:LMDr) declined 1.49% or 0.100 points to end at 6.600 and Athens Medical (AT:AMCr) shed 1.44% or 0.020 points to 1.390.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 76 to 27 and 15 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.02% or 0.25 to $1288.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $52.13 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.10% or 0.06 to trade at $57.63 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.35% to 1.1788, while EUR/GBP fell 0.07% to 0.8772.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 93.03.