Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Travel, Media and Retail sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite added 1.01%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Eurobank Ergasias SA (AT:EURBr), which rose 9.21% or 0.0430 points to trade at 0.5100 at the close. Meanwhile, Elastron SA (AT:ELSRr) added 8.11% or 0.0900 points to end at 1.2000 and National Bank of Greece SA (AT:NBGr) was up 5.12% or 0.051 points to 1.047 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Crete Plastics SA (AT:PLAKR), which fell 4.24% or 0.500 points to trade at 11.300 at the close. Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) declined 3.16% or 0.0012 points to end at 0.0368 and Public Power (AT:DEHr) was down 3.03% or 0.04 points to 1.28.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 61 to 40 and 15 ended unchanged.
Shares in Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) fell to all time lows; losing 3.16% or 0.0012 to 0.0368.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.11% or 1.40 to $1279.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.58% or 0.26 to hit $44.87 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.32% or 0.17 to trade at $52.56 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.11% to 1.1442, while EUR/GBP fell 0.28% to 0.9016.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 95.963.