Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Travel, Media and Retail sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite lost 1.13%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Nireus Aqua (AT:NIRr), which rose 4.73% or 0.007 points to trade at 0.164 at the close. Meanwhile, Gr Sarantis SA (AT:SRSr) added 3.12% or 0.22 points to end at 7.26 and Mytilineos Holdings SA (AT:MYTr) was up 2.67% or 0.200 points to 7.700 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were National Bank of Greece SA (AT:NBGr), which fell 7.75% or 0.084 points to trade at 1.000 at the close. Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) declined 7.10% or 0.130 points to end at 1.700 and Alpha Bank SA (AT:ACBr) was down 6.52% or 0.073 points to 1.047.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 70 to 40 and 10 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.16% or 2.05 to $1289.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 2.69% or 1.36 to hit $51.87 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 1.98% or 1.17 to trade at $60.16 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.66% to 1.1398, while EUR/GBP rose 0.07% to 0.8923.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.53% at 95.713.