Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Travel, Telecoms and Utilities sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite added 0.41%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr), which rose 11.01% or 0.012 points to trade at 0.121 at the close. Meanwhile, Quest Holdings (AT:IQTr) added 3.39% or 0.290 points to end at 8.850 and Greek Organisation of Football Prognostics SA (AT:OPAr) was up 3.38% or 0.315 points to 9.625 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr), which fell 5.86% or 0.0130 points to trade at 0.2090 at the close. ThesKi Water (AT:TWSr) declined 2.55% or 0.110 points to end at 4.200 and Marfin Invest (AT:MRFr) was down 2.44% or 0.005 points to 0.200.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 54 to 46 and 15 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.52% or 6.54 to $1260.14 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.07% or 0.54 to hit $51.21 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.90% or 0.48 to trade at $54.09 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.24% to 1.1235, while EUR/GBP rose 0.48% to 0.8637.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.13% at 96.87.