Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Basic Resources and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite lost 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Halcor (AT:XAKO), which rose 8.90% or 0.125 points to trade at 1.530 at the close. Profile Syst (AT:PRFr) added 4.92% or 0.036 points to end at 0.768 and Kri-Kri Milk (AT:KRIr) was up 4.90% or 0.150 points to 3.210 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which lost 6.28% or 0.012 points to trade at 0.179 in late trade. Centric Hold (AT:DESr) declined 3.27% or 0.005 points to end at 0.148 and Hygeia (AT:HYGr) shed 2.59% or 0.015 points to 0.565.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 69 to 48 and 9 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.13% or 1.70 to $1317.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 1.59% or 0.96 to hit $61.33 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 1.28% or 0.85 to trade at $67.42 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.28% to 1.2024, while EUR/GBP rose 0.27% to 0.8897.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 91.83.