Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Banking, Financials and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite fell 1.66%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which rose 11.16% or 0.026 points to trade at 0.259 at the close. Meanwhile, Sarantiseg (AT:SRSr) added 2.48% or 0.30 points to end at 12.40 and Fourlis Hld (AT:FRLr) was up 2.30% or 0.130 points to 5.770 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr), which fell 6.49% or 0.017 points to trade at 0.245 at the close. Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr) declined 5.36% or 0.006 points to end at 0.106 and National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) was down 4.57% or 0.017 points to 0.355.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 73 to 28 and 12 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.29% or 3.61 to $1248.49 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 1.21% or 0.58 to hit $48.47 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.98% or 0.49 to trade at $50.69 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.10% to 1.1634, while EUR/GBP fell 0.30% to 0.8914.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 94.02.