Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Construction and Chemicals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite fell 1.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Select Textile (AT:EPIr), which rose 6.84% or 0.016 points to trade at 0.250 at the close. Halcor (AT:XAKO) added 4.47% or 0.085 points to end at 1.985 and Flexopack SA (AT:FLXr) was up 3.12% or 0.2000 points to 6.6000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Centric Hold (AT:DESr), which lost 4.21% or 0.008 points to trade at 0.182 in late trade. Quest Holdings (AT:IQTr) declined 3.95% or 0.450 points to end at 10.950 and ThesKi Port (AT:OLTr) shed 3.65% or 1.10 points to 29.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 82 to 31 and 15 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 1.09% or 14.70 to $1333.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.64% or 1.08 to hit $64.72 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 2.28% or 1.59 to trade at $68.06 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.53% to 1.2448, while EUR/GBP rose 0.43% to 0.8808.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.68% at 89.08.