Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Utilities sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite gained 2.29% to hit a new 3-months high.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr), which rose 11.11% or 0.021 points to trade at 0.210 at the close. Meanwhile, National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) added 9.52% or 0.02 points to end at 0.23 and Public Power (AT:DEHr) was up 7.52% or 0.23 points to 3.29 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bank of Cyprus PCL (AT:BOCr), which fell 6.02% or 0.008 points to trade at 0.125 at the close. Centric Hold (AT:DESr) declined 4.95% or 0.005 points to end at 0.096 and J. & P. Avax (AT:AVAr) was down 3.35% or 0.015 points to 0.433.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 74 to 36 and 12 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.06% or 0.70 to $1209.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.91% or 0.44 to hit $47.80 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.27% or 0.13 to trade at $48.77 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.20% to 1.0610, while EUR/GBP rose 0.32% to 0.8534.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.22% at 101.16.