Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Banking sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite added 0.52% to hit a new 52-week high.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which rose 9.87% or 0.015 points to trade at 0.167 at the close. Meanwhile, Ellaktor SA (AT:HELr) added 7.94% or 0.100 points to end at 1.360 and J. & P. Avax (AT:AVAr) was up 7.45% or 0.035 points to 0.505 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Lamda Develop (AT:LMDr), which fell 2.11% or 0.100 points to trade at 4.650 at the close. Kri-Kri Milk (AT:KRIr) declined 1.52% or 0.030 points to end at 1.970 and ThesKi Water (AT:TWSr) was down 1.36% or 0.050 points to 3.620.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 61 to 35 and 20 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.28% or 3.55 to $1252.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.45% or 0.70 to hit $49.07 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 1.36% or 0.70 to trade at $52.12 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.54% to 1.0756, while EUR/GBP fell 0.22% to 0.8664.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.34% at 99.87.