Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Industrials, Basic Resources and Retail sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite gained 0.83%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Centric Hold (AT:DESr), which rose 10.99% or 0.010 points to trade at 0.101 at the close. Meanwhile, Viohalco SA (AT:VIOH) added 9.35% or 0.130 points to end at 1.520 and Halcor (AT:XAKO) was up 5.44% or 0.027 points to 0.523 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr), which fell 18.42% or 0.035 points to trade at 0.200 at the close. National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) declined 4.55% or 0.01 points to end at 0.21 and Iktinos Hellas (AT:IKTr) was down 2.73% or 0.0210 points to 0.7470.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 69 to 33 and 13 ended unchanged.
Shares in Iktinos Hellas (AT:IKTr) fell to 3-years lows; falling 2.73% or 0.0210 to 0.7470.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.57% or 6.90 to $1204.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 1.25% or 0.66 to hit $53.47 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.55% or 0.86 to trade at $56.44 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.38% to 1.0756, while EUR/GBP fell 0.84% to 0.8510.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.31% at 99.84.