Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite gained 0.10% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Bank of Cyprus PCL (AT:BOCr), which rose 7.48% or 0.011 points to trade at 0.158 at the close. Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) added 5.95% or 0.0100 points to end at 0.1790 and Athens Medical (AT:AMCr) was up 4.91% or 0.029 points to 0.620 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Centric Hold (AT:DESr), which lost 6.67% or 0.007 points to trade at 0.097 in late trade. Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) declined 3.68% or 0.007 points to end at 0.183 and Folli Follie (AT:HDFr) shed 2.33% or 0.46 points to 19.28.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 68 to 38 and 10 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was up 1.62% or 18.85 to $1184.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.13% or 0.07 to hit $53.33 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.16% or 0.09 to trade at $56.55 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 1.15% to 1.0609, while EUR/GBP rose 0.29% to 0.8536.
The US Dollar Index was down 1.13% at 101.33.