Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Household, Banking and Basic Resources sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite fell 3.00%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were J. & P. Avax (AT:AVAr), which rose 6.04% or 0.027 points to trade at 0.474 at the close. Piraeus Port (AT:OLPr) added 5.18% or 0.59 points to end at 11.99 and Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) was up 4.29% or 0.015 points to 0.365 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dromeas (AT:DROr), which lost 12.50% or 0.016 points to trade at 0.112 in late trade. Attica Bank (AT:BOAr) declined 12.50% or 0.006 points to end at 0.042 and Natl. Bank Gr (AT:NBGr) shed 9.53% or 0.10 points to 0.96.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 50 to 25 and 3 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.46% or 5.50 to $1203.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 1.09% or 0.62 to hit $56.09 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.18% or 0.12 to trade at $64.09 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.26% to 1.0790, while EUR/GBP rose 0.08% to 0.7212.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.15% at 97.73.