Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking, Food and Retail sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite rose 1.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which rose 9.29% or 0.013 points to trade at 0.153 at the close. Halcor (AT:XAKO) added 5.51% or 0.022 points to end at 0.421 and Iaso (AT:IASr) was up 4.87% or 0.019 points to 0.409 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Athens Medical (AT:AMCr), which lost 9.93% or 0.069 points to trade at 0.626 in late trade. Quest Holdings (AT:IQTr) declined 5.67% or 0.380 points to end at 6.320 and Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr) shed 4.67% or 0.0070 points to 0.1430.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 61 to 43 and 14 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was up 0.34% or 3.85 to $1137.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 1.28% or 0.68 to hit $53.70 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 1.18% or 0.66 to trade at $56.56 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.05% to 1.0459, while EUR/GBP rose 0.20% to 0.8536.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.08% at 103.03.