Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Banking, Financials and Retail sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite rose 1.68%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Centric Hold (AT:DESr), which rose 12.88% or 0.017 points to trade at 0.149 at the close. Meanwhile, National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) added 8.41% or 0.019 points to end at 0.245 and Eurobank Ergasias SA (AT:EURBr) was up 5.26% or 0.028 points to 0.560 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Flexopack SA (AT:FLXr), which fell 5.33% or 0.3200 points to trade at 5.7000 at the close. Athens Medical (AT:AMCr) declined 1.64% or 0.020 points to end at 1.200 and Profile Syst (AT:PRFr) was down 1.06% or 0.007 points to 0.653.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 75 to 29 and 8 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.76% or 9.69 to $1287.89 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 2.34% or 1.29 to hit $56.43 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 1.92% or 1.18 to trade at $62.54 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.12% to 1.1784, while EUR/GBP fell 0.02% to 0.8920.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 93.67.