Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Utilities, Financials and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite lost 0.55%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr), which rose 9.68% or 0.0150 points to trade at 0.1700 at the close. Hygeia (AT:HYGr) added 8.70% or 0.022 points to end at 0.275 and Iaso (AT:IASr) was up 3.82% or 0.020 points to 0.544 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr), which lost 4.74% or 0.010 points to trade at 0.201 in late trade. Korres (AT:KRRr) declined 3.61% or 0.130 points to end at 3.470 and Petros Petropoulos SA (AT:PTRr) shed 3.53% or 0.160 points to 4.370.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 64 to 29 and 21 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.01% or 0.10 to $1283.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.18% or 0.09 to hit $50.76 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.13% or 0.07 to trade at $52.86 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.49% to 1.0764, while EUR/GBP rose 0.08% to 0.8387.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.30% at 99.41.