Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Healthcare, Banking and Food sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite fell 0.43%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which rose 9.90% or 0.020 points to trade at 0.222 at the close. Meanwhile, Athens Medical (AT:AMCr) added 4.41% or 0.060 points to end at 1.420 and Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) was up 3.96% or 0.012 points to 0.315 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hygeia (AT:HYGr), which fell 2.20% or 0.014 points to trade at 0.621 at the close. Eurobank Ergasias SA (AT:EURBr) declined 2.09% or 0.0190 points to end at 0.8910 and National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) was down 1.43% or 0.005 points to 0.345.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 57 to 49 and 25 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.49% or 6.50 to $1341.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.26% or 0.17 to hit $64.47 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.14% or 0.10 to trade at $69.97 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.62% to 1.2273, while EUR/GBP fell 0.01% to 0.8890.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.52% at 90.15.