Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Healthcare sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite gained 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Motor Oil Hellas Corinth Refineries SA (AT:MORr), which rose 2.56% or 0.48 points to trade at 19.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Quest Holdings (AT:IQTr) added 2.32% or 0.190 points to end at 8.370 and Hellenic Telec (AT:OTEr) was up 1.89% or 0.20 points to 10.78 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Iaso (AT:IASr), which fell 3.37% or 0.028 points to trade at 0.802 at the close. Select Textile (AT:EPIr) declined 1.82% or 0.005 points to end at 0.270 and Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) was down 1.68% or 0.0040 points to 0.2340.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 51 to 45 and 18 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.39% or 5.00 to $1296.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 1.25% or 0.61 to hit $48.05 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 1.59% or 0.84 to trade at $51.88 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.48% to 1.1818, while EUR/GBP rose 0.31% to 0.9161.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.43% at 92.96.