Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Banking, Food and Financials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite added 0.72%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Quest Holdings (AT:IQTr), which rose 8.65% or 0.540 points to trade at 6.780 at the close. Meanwhile, Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) added 7.57% or 0.014 points to end at 0.199 and Marfin Invest (AT:MRFr) was up 7.14% or 0.010 points to 0.150 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Revoil Petrol (AT:REVr), which fell 4.58% or 0.016 points to trade at 0.333 at the close. Thrace Plastic (AT:THRr) declined 4.17% or 0.100 points to end at 2.300 and Athens Medical (AT:AMCr) was down 3.85% or 0.024 points to 0.600.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 70 to 37 and 13 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was up 0.01% or 0.10 to $1158.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.32% or 0.17 to hit $53.60 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.42% or 0.24 to trade at $56.61 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.66% to 1.0557, while EUR/GBP rose 0.04% to 0.8559.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.51% at 102.14.