Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Travel, Media and Retail sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite fell 0.39%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Karatzi (AT:KRTr), which rose 10.00% or 0.600 points to trade at 6.600 at the close. Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr) added 3.39% or 0.040 points to end at 1.220 and Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr) was up 3.20% or 0.004 points to 0.129 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Public Power (AT:DEHr), which lost 4.76% or 0.06 points to trade at 1.20 in late trade. Lampsa Hellenic Hotels SA (AT:LAMr) declined 3.24% or 0.6000 points to end at 17.9000 and Hellenic Telec (AT:OTEr) shed 2.96% or 0.30 points to 9.84.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 38 to 36 and 8 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.09% or 1.10 to $1229.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 2.60% or 1.87 to hit $70.05 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 2.11% or 1.72 to trade at $79.69 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.41% to 1.1526, while EUR/GBP rose 0.02% to 0.8780.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.36% at 95.12.