Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Construction, Food and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite lost 1.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Intracom Hold (AT:INRr), which rose 4.79% or 0.032 points to trade at 0.700 at the close. Select Textile (AT:EPIr) added 4.64% or 0.013 points to end at 0.293 and Autohellas (AT:AUTr) was up 2.39% or 0.49 points to 21.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Titan Cement Company SA (AT:TTNr), which lost 3.97% or 0.990 points to trade at 23.960 in late trade. Athens Medical (AT:AMCr) declined 3.25% or 0.050 points to end at 1.490 and Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) shed 3.02% or 0.0080 points to 0.2570.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 67 to 40 and 8 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.44% or 5.45 to $1250.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 1.53% or 0.72 to hit $46.20 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 1.36% or 0.67 to trade at $48.63 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.21% to 1.1656, while EUR/GBP rose 0.18% to 0.8982.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 93.84.