Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Chemicals, Banking and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite declined 0.16%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr), which rose 10.00% or 0.0130 points to trade at 0.1430 at the close. Meanwhile, Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) added 9.52% or 0.060 points to end at 0.690 and Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) was up 6.25% or 0.007 points to 0.119 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Alpha Bank SA (AT:ACBr), which fell 2.74% or 0.045 points to trade at 1.595 at the close. Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr) declined 2.24% or 0.003 points to end at 0.131 and Hygeia (AT:HYGr) was down 1.97% or 0.003 points to 0.151.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 48 to 38 and 15 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.98% or 12.95 to $1337.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 1.18% or 0.56 to hit $47.89 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.95% or 0.47 to trade at $50.14 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.12% to 1.1269, while EUR/GBP fell 0.15% to 0.8543.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.08% at 94.76.