Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as in the sectors propelled shares .
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite unchanged 0.00%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which rose 8.37% or 0.018 points to trade at 0.233 at the close. Centric Hold (AT:DESr) added 5.93% or 0.007 points to end at 0.125 and Ellaktor SA (AT:HELr) was up 5.80% or 0.080 points to 1.460 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr), which lost 4.27% or 0.005 points to trade at 0.112 in late trade. Marfin Invest (AT:MRFr) declined 3.55% or 0.006 points to end at 0.163 and Elton S.A. (AT:ELNr) shed 2.90% or 0.040 points to 1.340.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 61 to 52 and 8 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.33% or 4.11 to $1251.01 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.90% or 0.40 to hit $44.64 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.00% or 0.47 to trade at $47.39 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.20% to 1.1363, while EUR/GBP fell 0.72% to 0.8785.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.35% at 95.84.