Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Banking, Utilities and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite rose 1.92%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr), which rose 12.25% or 0.025 points to trade at 0.229 at the close. Meanwhile, Frigoglass (AT:FRIr) added 12.17% or 0.06 points to end at 0.52 and Ellaktor (AT:HELr) was up 9.30% or 0.120 points to 1.410 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Creta Plastics (AT:PLAKR), which fell 5.16% or 0.19 points to trade at 3.49 at the close. Iktinos Hellas (AT:IKTr) declined 2.93% or 0.03 points to end at 0.96 and Halcor (AT:XAKO) was down 2.64% or 0.007 points to 0.261.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 73 to 21 and 17 ended unchanged.
Gold for June delivery was down 0.72% or 8.90 to $1228.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 2.51% or 0.96 to hit $39.24 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 2.51% or 1.00 to trade at $40.85 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.47% to 1.1347, while EUR/GBP rose 0.11% to 0.7869.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.48% at 94.71.