Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Retail, Banking and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite lost 0.38%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Karatzi (AT:KRTr), which rose 4.32% or 0.300 points to trade at 7.250 at the close. Hellenic Telec (AT:OTEr) added 1.80% or 0.19 points to end at 10.73 and Reds (AT:CAMr) was up 1.71% or 0.015 points to 0.890 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr), which lost 5.91% or 0.0065 points to trade at 0.1035 in late trade. Kekrops SA (AT:KEKr) declined 5.69% or 0.0700 points to end at 1.1600 and Intralot (AT:INLr) shed 4.71% or 0.043 points to 0.870.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 67 to 34 and 16 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.51% or 6.30 to $1224.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.31% or 0.21 to hit $68.47 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.93% or 0.68 to trade at $73.75 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.19% to 1.1699, while EUR/GBP rose 0.01% to 0.8927.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 94.37.