Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Travel, Media and Retail sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite lost 0.74%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Crete Plastics SA (AT:PLAKR), which rose 8.47% or 1.000 points to trade at 12.800 at the close. Meanwhile, Karatzi (AT:KRTr) added 7.76% or 0.450 points to end at 6.250 and Reds (AT:CAMr) was up 2.67% or 0.020 points to 0.785 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr), which fell 8.75% or 0.0042 points to trade at 0.0438 at the close. Iaso (AT:IASr) declined 4.35% or 0.050 points to end at 1.100 and Quest Holdings (AT:IQTr) was down 3.45% or 0.500 points to 14.000.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 67 to 32 and 24 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.47% or 5.80 to $1248.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 3.74% or 1.98 to hit $50.91 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 3.38% or 2.08 to trade at $59.48 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.32% to 1.1380, while EUR/GBP fell 0.09% to 0.8901.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.33% at 96.688.