Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Travel, Media and Retail sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite fell 0.39%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Karatzi (AT:KRTr), which rose 10.00% or 0.600 points to trade at 6.600 at the close. Meanwhile, Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr) added 3.39% or 0.040 points to end at 1.220 and Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr) was up 3.20% or 0.004 points to 0.129 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Public Power (AT:DEHr), which fell 4.76% or 0.06 points to trade at 1.20 at the close. Lampsa Hellenic Hotels SA (AT:LAMr) declined 3.24% or 0.6000 points to end at 17.9000 and Hellenic Telec (AT:OTEr) was down 2.96% or 0.30 points to 9.84.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 38 to 36 and 8 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.10% or 1.20 to $1229.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 2.59% or 1.86 to hit $70.06 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 2.05% or 1.67 to trade at $79.74 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.41% to 1.1526, while EUR/GBP rose 0.02% to 0.8780.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.36% at 95.12.