Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Household, Telecoms and Utilities sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite lost 1.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Centric Hold (AT:DESr), which rose 5.22% or 0.006 points to trade at 0.121 at the close. Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) added 2.94% or 0.006 points to end at 0.210 and Profile Syst (AT:PRFr) was up 2.69% or 0.015 points to 0.572 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AS Company SA (AT:ASCr), which lost 4.17% or 0.050 points to trade at 1.180 in late trade. Revoil Petrol (AT:REVr) declined 3.54% or 0.011 points to end at 0.307 and Hygeia (AT:HYGr) shed 3.08% or 0.008 points to 0.252.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 69 to 25 and 17 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.22% or 2.90 to $1289.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.06% or 0.03 to hit $52.68 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.25% or 0.14 to trade at $55.22 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.50% to 1.0696, while EUR/GBP fell 0.96% to 0.8388.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.46% at 99.74.