Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Banking, Utilities and Household sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite lost 2.52%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which rose 8.28% or 0.012 points to trade at 0.157 at the close. Meanwhile, Centric Hold (AT:DESr) added 6.12% or 0.006 points to end at 0.104 and Bank of Cyprus PCL (AT:BOCr) was up 6.02% or 0.008 points to 0.141 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr), which fell 8.11% or 0.0120 points to trade at 0.1360 at the close. Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr) declined 7.91% or 0.017 points to end at 0.198 and National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) was down 7.69% or 0.02 points to 0.24.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 62 to 38 and 14 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was up 0.34% or 3.90 to $1141.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.47% or 0.25 to hit $52.70 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.83% or 0.46 to trade at $54.75 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.11% to 1.0438, while EUR/GBP rose 0.59% to 0.8415.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 102.81.