Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials, Retail and Basic Resources sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite added 1.30% to hit a new 3-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Flexopack SA (AT:FLXr), which rose 9.80% or 0.2500 points to trade at 2.8000 at the close. Halcor (AT:XAKO) added 5.73% or 0.020 points to end at 0.369 and Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) was up 5.51% or 0.007 points to 0.133 in late trade.
Biggest losers included J. & P. Avax (AT:AVAr), which lost 5.96% or 0.030 points to trade at 0.473 in late trade. Select Textile (AT:EPIr) declined 4.48% or 0.006 points to end at 0.128 and Centric Hold (AT:DESr) shed 3.77% or 0.004 points to 0.102.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 62 to 39 and 15 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.48% or 6.05 to $1262.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.06% or 0.03 to hit $49.97 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.14% or 0.07 to trade at $51.45 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.13% to 1.0984, while EUR/GBP fell 1.12% to 0.8924.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.02% at 97.84.