Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials, Travel and Household sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite added 0.57%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Crete Plastics SA (AT:PLAKR), which rose 3.85% or 0.500 points to trade at 13.300 at the close. Meanwhile, Hellenic Exchanges Athens Stock Exchange SA (AT:EXCr) added 3.23% or 0.15 points to end at 4.80 and Profile Syst (AT:PRFr) was up 3.04% or 0.040 points to 1.355 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Gek Terna (AT:HRMr), which fell 2.67% or 0.140 points to trade at 5.110 at the close. Iaso (AT:IASr) declined 2.17% or 0.030 points to end at 1.350 and Hellenic Telec (AT:OTEr) was down 1.23% or 0.14 points to 11.26.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 73 to 37 and 15 ended unchanged.
Shares in Profile Syst (AT:PRFr) rose to 5-year highs; gaining 3.04% or 0.040 to 1.355.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.92% or 12.50 to $1342.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.37% or 0.24 to hit $65.31 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to trade at $69.52 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.37% to 1.2397, while EUR/GBP rose 0.24% to 0.8767.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.44% at 89.03.