Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Food, Healthcare and Chemicals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite gained 0.27%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Centric Hold (AT:DESr), which rose 14.62% or 0.019 points to trade at 0.149 at the close. Lykos Inform. (AT:LYKr) added 8.42% or 0.03 points to end at 0.44 and Fourlis Hld (AT:FRLr) was up 4.00% or 0.10 points to 2.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dromeas (AT:DROr), which lost 10.00% or 0.013 points to trade at 0.117 in late trade. Autohellas (AT:AUTr) declined 8.32% or 0.89 points to end at 9.81 and Bank Of Piraeus (AT:BOPr) shed 7.32% or 0.009 points to 0.114.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 53 to 47 and 11 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 1.08% or 12.10 to $1108.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 1.22% or 0.56 to hit $45.38 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 1.24% or 0.61 to trade at $48.91 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.40% to 1.1157, while EUR/GBP fell 0.24% to 0.7260.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.42% at 96.24.