Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms, Travel and Financials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite rose 0.42%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr), which rose 14.44% or 0.013 points to trade at 0.103 at the close. Meanwhile, Marfin Invest (AT:MRFr) added 6.45% or 0.008 points to end at 0.132 and Halcor (AT:XAKO) was up 4.39% or 0.041 points to 0.974 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr), which fell 10.68% or 0.036 points to trade at 0.301 at the close. Fourlis Hld (AT:FRLr) declined 3.84% or 0.220 points to end at 5.510 and Centric Hold (AT:DESr) was down 3.68% or 0.006 points to 0.157.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 52 to 47 and 11 ended unchanged.
Shares in Halcor (AT:XAKO) rose to 3-years highs; up 4.39% or 0.041 to 0.974.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.12% or 15.00 to $1354.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.39% or 0.19 to hit $48.97 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 0.20% or 0.11 to trade at $54.09 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.94% to 1.2029, while EUR/GBP rose 0.40% to 0.9174.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.84% at 91.44.