Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Telecoms, Retail and Basic Resources sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite declined 1.44%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Euro Reliance (AT:EREr), which rose 10.00% or 0.15 points to trade at 1.65 at the close. Halcor (AT:XAKO) added 8.42% or 0.033 points to end at 0.425 and Iaso (AT:IASr) was up 6.76% or 0.050 points to 0.790 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Athens Medical (AT:AMCr), which lost 8.73% or 0.069 points to trade at 0.790 in late trade. Public Power (AT:DEHr) declined 8.06% or 0.40 points to end at 4.56 and Gek Terna (AT:HRMr) shed 7.07% or 0.13 points to 1.71.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 44 to 34 and 1 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was up 0.09% or 1.10 to $1189.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 2.86% or 1.65 to hit $59.33 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 3.14% or 1.97 to trade at $64.55 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.15% to 1.0964, while EUR/GBP rose 0.55% to 0.7188.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.04% at 97.17.