Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Banking, Telecoms and Utilities sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite fell 0.81%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Centric Hold (AT:DESr), which rose 9.00% or 0.009 points to trade at 0.109 at the close. Meanwhile, Select Textile (AT:EPIr) added 6.82% or 0.012 points to end at 0.189 and Euro Reliance (AT:EREr) was up 4.48% or 0.100 points to 2.330 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Revoil Petrol (AT:REVr), which fell 5.96% or 0.022 points to trade at 0.347 at the close. Halcor (AT:XAKO) declined 4.46% or 0.025 points to end at 0.535 and Iktinos Hellas (AT:IKTr) was down 3.74% or 0.0350 points to 0.9000.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 63 to 39 and 18 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.26% or 3.10 to $1199.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.89% or 0.90 to hit $48.62 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 1.53% or 0.78 to trade at $51.70 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.26% to 1.0632, while EUR/GBP fell 0.29% to 0.8701.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 101.37.