Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Household, Industrials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite declined 0.52%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Halcor (AT:XAKO), which rose 3.31% or 0.040 points to trade at 1.250 at the close. Eurobank Ergasias SA (AT:EURBr) added 1.47% or 0.011 points to end at 0.760 and Hellenic Telec (AT:OTEr) was up 1.46% or 0.15 points to 10.45 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which lost 9.55% or 0.019 points to trade at 0.180 in late trade. Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr) declined 3.39% or 0.002 points to end at 0.057 and National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) shed 3.28% or 0.010 points to 0.295.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 61 to 41 and 13 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 1.39% or 18.06 to $1284.94 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.54% or 0.28 to hit $51.59 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.17% or 0.10 to trade at $57.72 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.40% to 1.1749, while EUR/GBP rose 0.19% to 0.8918.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 93.53.