Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Travel, Basic Resources and Chemicals sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite gained 0.14%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Intracom Hold (AT:INRr), which rose 6.05% or 0.019 points to trade at 0.333 at the close. Meanwhile, Iaso (AT:IASr) added 5.95% or 0.025 points to end at 0.445 and Centric Hold (AT:DESr) was up 4.95% or 0.005 points to 0.106 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Elinoil Hellenic Petroleum Company SA (AT:ELIr), which fell 29.90% or 0.2960 points to trade at 0.6940 at the close. Select Textile (AT:EPIr) declined 5.88% or 0.008 points to end at 0.128 and National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) was down 5.26% or 0.01 points to 0.18.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 53 to 37 and 19 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.36% or 4.55 to $1269.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.44% or 0.22 to hit $49.74 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.83% or 0.42 to trade at $50.37 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.22% to 1.0913, while EUR/GBP fell 0.08% to 0.8927.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.13% at 98.56.