Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Insurance, Telecoms and Basic Resources sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite added 1.43%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr), which rose 6.71% or 0.011 points to trade at 0.175 at the close. Centric Hold (AT:DESr) added 5.56% or 0.005 points to end at 0.095 and Reds (AT:CAMr) was up 4.84% or 0.015 points to 0.325 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Halcor (AT:XAKO), which lost 7.75% or 0.020 points to trade at 0.238 in late trade. Iaso (AT:IASr) declined 7.62% or 0.033 points to end at 0.400 and Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) shed 5.63% or 0.040 points to 0.662.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 65 to 25 and 10 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for April delivery was down 2.03% or 25.30 to $1223.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 3.23% or 1.34 to hit $40.11 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 2.66% or 1.11 to trade at $40.68 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.42% to 1.1170, while EUR/GBP rose 0.33% to 0.7921.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.50% at 96.15.