Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Household, Basic Resources and Travel sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite gained 0.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr), which rose 15.79% or 0.006 points to trade at 0.044 at the close. Revoil Petrol (AT:REVr) added 9.74% or 0.037 points to end at 0.417 and Hygeia (AT:HYGr) was up 5.37% or 0.008 points to 0.157 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which lost 7.59% or 0.011 points to trade at 0.134 in late trade. Centric Hold (AT:DESr) declined 6.80% or 0.007 points to end at 0.096 and National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) shed 4.17% or 0.01 points to 0.23.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 54 to 47 and 15 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was up 0.96% or 11.55 to $1216.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.90% or 0.48 to hit $52.74 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.52% or 0.29 to trade at $55.20 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.31% to 1.0736, while EUR/GBP fell 0.58% to 0.8601.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.49% at 100.28.