Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Travel and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite fell 0.15% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr), which rose 5.56% or 0.01 points to trade at 0.19 at the close. Meanwhile, Flexopack SA (AT:FLXr) added 2.96% or 0.0800 points to end at 2.7800 and Halcor (AT:XAKO) was up 2.49% or 0.007 points to 0.288 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were J. & P. Avax (AT:AVAr), which fell 8.09% or 0.025 points to trade at 0.284 at the close. Hygeia (AT:HYGr) declined 3.45% or 0.005 points to end at 0.140 and Hellenic Telec (AT:OTEr) was down 3.39% or 0.28 points to 7.97.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 50 to 35 and 22 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.20% or 2.65 to $1328.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 3.07% or 1.42 to hit $44.87 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 2.46% or 1.19 to trade at $47.13 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.04% to 1.1239, while EUR/GBP rose 1.26% to 0.8530.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.28% at 95.39.