Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Financials and Healthcare sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite added 0.74%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr), which rose 4.95% or 0.002 points to trade at 0.032 at the close. Meanwhile, Centric Hold (AT:DESr) added 4.32% or 0.007 points to end at 0.169 and Marfin Invest (AT:MRFr) was up 3.71% or 0.005 points to 0.151 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Revoil Petrol (AT:REVr), which fell 4.00% or 0.025 points to trade at 0.600 at the close. Motor Oil Hellas Corinth Refineries SA (AT:MORr) declined 2.09% or 0.39 points to end at 18.23 and Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) was down 1.30% or 0.0030 points to 0.2270.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 86 to 31 and 12 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.08% or 1.00 to $1331.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.31% or 0.81 to hit $62.49 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.89% or 0.58 to trade at $66.00 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.29% to 1.2319, while EUR/GBP rose 0.12% to 0.8837.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.30% at 89.76.