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 rose 1.42%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr), which rose 6.36% or 0.007 points to trade at 0.117 at the close. Meanwhile, Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) added 5.88% or 0.0020 points to end at 0.0360 and Intralot (AT:INLr) was up 4.64% or 0.019 points to 0.440 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were J. & P. Avax (AT:AVAr), which fell 4.04% or 0.015 points to trade at 0.356 at the close. Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) declined 3.58% or 0.055 points to end at 1.480 and Iktinos Hellas (AT:IKTr) was down 2.90% or 0.1300 points to 4.3500.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 73 to 34 and 13 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.81% or 10.50 to $1284.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 2.95% or 1.39 to hit $48.48 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 2.75% or 1.54 to trade at $57.49 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.12% to 1.1406, while EUR/GBP fell 0.57% to 0.8966.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 95.705.