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Greece stocks higher at close of trade; Athens General-Composite up 1.53%

Published 07/20/2016, 11:15 AM
Updated 07/20/2016, 11:15 AM
© Reuters.  Greece stocks higher at close of trade; Athens General-Composite up 1.53%

© Reuters. Greece stocks higher at close of trade; Athens General-Composite up 1.53%

Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Construction and Industrials sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite gained 1.53%.

The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Elinoil Hellenic Petroleum Company SA (AT:ELIr), which rose 9.96% or 0.0690 points to trade at 0.7620 at the close. Meanwhile, Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) added 8.21% or 0.011 points to end at 0.145 and FHL I Kiriakidis Marbles and Granites SA (AT:KRKr) was up 7.81% or 0.200 points to 2.760 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which fell 9.40% or 0.014 points to trade at 0.135 at the close. Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) declined 9.09% or 0.0160 points to end at 0.1600 and Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) was down 3.12% or 0.020 points to 0.620.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 58 to 27 and 19 ended unchanged.

Gold for August delivery was down 1.08% or 14.45 to $1317.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.37% or 0.17 to hit $45.62 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.62% or 0.29 to trade at $46.95 a barrel.

EUR/USD was down 0.15% to 1.1004, while EUR/GBP fell 0.61% to 0.8356.

The US Dollar Index was up 0.14% at 97.20.

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