Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Retail, Basic Resources and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite added 1.24%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Reds (AT:CAMr), which rose 9.90% or 0.031 points to trade at 0.344 at the close. Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) added 8.94% or 0.011 points to end at 0.134 and Halcor (AT:XAKO) was up 7.07% or 0.021 points to 0.318 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Flexopack SA (AT:FLXr), which lost 5.13% or 0.1200 points to trade at 2.2200 in late trade. Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) declined 4.76% or 0.032 points to end at 0.640 and Iaso (AT:IASr) shed 4.29% or 0.021 points to 0.468.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 57 to 29 and 20 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was up 0.09% or 1.20 to $1330.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.37% or 0.17 to hit $45.77 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.04% or 0.02 to trade at $46.98 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.65% to 1.1004, while EUR/GBP rose 0.34% to 0.8382.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.63% at 97.17.