Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Financials and Basic Resources sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite added 1.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Marfin Invest (AT:MRFr), which rose 10.19% or 0.011 points to trade at 0.119 at the close. Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) added 10.00% or 0.061 points to end at 0.671 and Quest Holdings (AT:IQTr) was up 6.21% or 0.320 points to 5.470 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr), which lost 11.50% or 0.013 points to trade at 0.100 in late trade. Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) declined 7.89% or 0.0120 points to end at 0.1400 and ThesKi Port (AT:OLTr) shed 2.30% or 0.47 points to 19.98.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 64 to 26 and 16 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.36% or 4.95 to $1369.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.29% or 0.12 to hit $40.95 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.19% or 0.08 to trade at $43.02 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.07% to 1.1141, while EUR/GBP rose 1.34% to 0.8480.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.17% at 95.65.