Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Banking, Retail and Utilities sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite fell 1.73%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Corinth Pipe (AT:CORr), which rose 7.62% or 0.080 points to trade at 1.130 at the close. Meanwhile, Eurobank Ergasias SA (AT:EURBr) added 6.25% or 0.001 points to end at 0.017 and Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) was up 5.20% or 0.042 points to 0.850 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bank Of Piraeus (AT:BOPr), which fell 28.57% or 0.006 points to trade at 0.015 at the close. Centric Hold (AT:DESr) declined 10.48% or 0.013 points to end at 0.111 and Folli Follie (AT:HDFr) was down 4.26% or 0.85 points to 19.10.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 61 to 33 and 13 ended unchanged.
Shares in Bank Of Piraeus (AT:BOPr) fell to all time lows; losing 28.57% or 0.006 to 0.015.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.05% or 0.50 to $1078.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.50% or 0.21 to hit $41.51 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.26% or 0.12 to trade at $44.30 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.69% to 1.0659, while EUR/GBP fell 0.15% to 0.7010.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.49% at 99.56.