Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Food and Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite lost 0.43%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Athens Medical (AT:AMCr), which rose 10.00% or 0.060 points to trade at 0.660 at the close. Meanwhile, Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) added 9.59% or 0.0140 points to end at 0.1600 and Select Textile (AT:EPIr) was up 9.35% or 0.013 points to 0.152 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Centric Hold (AT:DESr), which fell 5.83% or 0.006 points to trade at 0.097 at the close. Creta Plastics (AT:PLAKR) declined 3.80% or 0.200 points to end at 5.050 and Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) was down 3.52% or 0.031 points to 0.850.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 51 to 51 and 18 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was down 0.38% or 4.45 to $1161.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.06% or 0.03 to hit $52.80 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.07% or 0.04 to trade at $55.65 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.25% to 1.0664, while EUR/GBP rose 0.24% to 0.8407.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.20% at 100.80.