Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Travel, Retail and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite declined 1.46% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Autohellas (AT:AUTr), which rose 3.31% or 0.80 points to trade at 25.00 at the close. AS Company SA (AT:ASCr) added 1.94% or 0.040 points to end at 2.100 and Profile Syst (AT:PRFr) was up 1.50% or 0.015 points to 1.015 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr), which lost 8.33% or 0.003 points to trade at 0.033 in late trade. National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) declined 6.56% or 0.020 points to end at 0.285 and Sarantiseg (AT:SRSr) shed 5.00% or 0.75 points to 14.25.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 96 to 18 and 10 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 1.16% or 15.20 to $1320.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.57% or 0.35 to hit $60.64 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.31% or 0.20 to trade at $63.63 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.37% to 1.2309, while EUR/GBP rose 0.39% to 0.8939.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.23% at 90.01.