Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Financials and Chemicals sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite gained 0.91%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Cenergy Holdings SA (AT:CENEr), which rose 6.74% or 0.0840 points to trade at 1.3300 at the close. Meanwhile, Viohalco SA (AT:VIOH) added 5.11% or 0.165 points to end at 3.395 and Lamda Develop (AT:LMDr) was up 4.40% or 0.270 points to 6.400 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nireus Aqua (AT:NIRr), which fell 18.29% or 0.047 points to trade at 0.210 at the close. Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) declined 17.42% or 0.0270 points to end at 0.1280 and Ellaktor SA (AT:HELr) was down 8.09% or 0.174 points to 1.976.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 61 to 42 and 20 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.38% or 4.90 to $1269.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $65.72 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.32% or 0.99 to trade at $73.75 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.29% to 1.1608, while EUR/GBP fell 0.32% to 0.8759.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 94.52.