Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking, Basic Resources and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite gained 1.96% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Piraeus Bank SA (AT:BOPr), which rose 6.23% or 0.186 points to trade at 3.170 at the close. Iktinos Hellas (AT:IKTr) added 5.26% or 0.1700 points to end at 3.4000 and Flexopack SA (AT:FLXr) was up 4.62% or 0.3000 points to 6.8000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Revoil Petrol (AT:REVr), which lost 3.51% or 0.020 points to trade at 0.550 in late trade. Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) declined 2.38% or 0.050 points to end at 2.050 and Select Textile (AT:EPIr) shed 1.74% or 0.004 points to 0.226.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 85 to 41 and 6 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.31% or 4.20 to $1346.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.09% or 0.06 to hit $66.28 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.17 to trade at $71.59 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.28% to 1.2345, while EUR/GBP fell 0.10% to 0.8626.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.21% at 89.33.