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 declined 0.79%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Ellaktor SA (AT:HELr), which rose 8.94% or 0.110 points to trade at 1.340 at the close. Meanwhile, Elliniki Technodomiki Anemos SA (AT:ANEMr) added 8.61% or 0.130 points to end at 1.640 and Intracom Constructions Technical and Steel Constructions SA (AT:INCr) was up 7.35% or 0.075 points to 1.095 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Karatzi (AT:KRTr), which fell 5.38% or 0.350 points to trade at 6.150 at the close. Iaso (AT:IASr) declined 3.23% or 0.040 points to end at 1.200 and Marfin Invest (AT:MRFr) was down 2.76% or 0.002 points to 0.070.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 72 to 42 and 14 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.16% or 2.05 to $1289.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.04% or 0.02 to hit $52.38 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.15 to trade at $61.59 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.16% to 1.1522, while EUR/GBP rose 0.00% to 0.9023.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 94.963.