Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Banking, Financials and Utilities sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite fell 3.00%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr), which rose 8.12% or 0.069 points to trade at 0.919 at the close. Meanwhile, Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) added 2.27% or 0.004 points to end at 0.180 and Elton S.A. (AT:ELNr) was up 1.81% or 0.016 points to 0.900 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr), which fell 9.87% or 0.023 points to trade at 0.210 at the close. Eurobank Ergasias SA (AT:EURBr) declined 7.67% or 0.055 points to end at 0.662 and Halcor (AT:XAKO) was down 6.68% or 0.028 points to 0.391.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 76 to 29 and 15 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was up 0.56% or 6.45 to $1165.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.09% or 0.58 to hit $52.40 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.61% or 0.34 to trade at $55.38 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.35% to 1.0661, while EUR/GBP fell 0.11% to 0.8385.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.31% at 100.77.