Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Travel, Food and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite declined 0.70%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr), which rose 17.85% or 0.005 points to trade at 0.035 at the close. Meanwhile, Revoil Petrol (AT:REVr) added 9.17% or 0.055 points to end at 0.655 and Select Textile (AT:EPIr) was up 5.04% or 0.012 points to 0.246 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AS Company SA (AT:ASCr), which fell 3.81% or 0.080 points to trade at 2.020 at the close. Greek Organisation of Football Prognostics SA (AT:OPAr) declined 3.09% or 0.320 points to end at 10.030 and Coca Cola HBC AG (AT:EEEr) was down 2.66% or 0.7450 points to 27.2550.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 61 to 57 and 12 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.13% or 1.70 to $1320.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 1.81% or 1.14 to hit $61.87 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 1.86% or 1.24 to trade at $65.28 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.26% to 1.2201, while EUR/GBP rose 0.60% to 0.8848.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 90.53.