Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Utilities and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite lost 0.04%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Flexopack SA (AT:FLXr), which rose 8.33% or 0.2000 points to trade at 2.6000 at the close. Meanwhile, Select Textile (AT:EPIr) added 7.75% or 0.010 points to end at 0.139 and Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) was up 7.34% or 0.008 points to 0.117 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Halcor (AT:XAKO), which fell 7.91% or 0.025 points to trade at 0.291 at the close. Elinoil Hellenic Petroleum Company SA (AT:ELIr) declined 4.49% or 0.0400 points to end at 0.8500 and ThesKi Port (AT:OLTr) was down 2.95% or 0.58 points to 19.11.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 47 to 38 and 19 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was up 1.38% or 18.30 to $1345.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.59% or 0.26 to hit $44.18 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 2.06% or 0.98 to trade at $46.65 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.76% to 1.1233, while EUR/GBP fell 0.24% to 0.8360.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.81% at 94.96.