Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Healthcare, Banking and Food sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite lost 0.43%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which rose 9.90% or 0.020 points to trade at 0.222 at the close. Athens Medical (AT:AMCr) added 4.41% or 0.060 points to end at 1.420 and Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) was up 3.96% or 0.012 points to 0.315 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hygeia (AT:HYGr), which lost 2.20% or 0.014 points to trade at 0.621 in late trade. Eurobank Ergasias SA (AT:EURBr) declined 2.09% or 0.0190 points to end at 0.8910 and National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) shed 1.43% or 0.005 points to 0.345.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 57 to 49 and 25 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.47% or 6.30 to $1341.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.26% or 0.17 to hit $64.47 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.14% or 0.10 to trade at $69.97 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.62% to 1.2273, while EUR/GBP fell 0.01% to 0.8890.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.52% at 90.15.