Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Travel and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite declined 0.15% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr), which rose 5.56% or 0.01 points to trade at 0.19 at the close. Flexopack SA (AT:FLXr) added 2.96% or 0.0800 points to end at 2.7800 and Halcor (AT:XAKO) was up 2.49% or 0.007 points to 0.288 in late trade.
Biggest losers included J. & P. Avax (AT:AVAr), which lost 8.09% or 0.025 points to trade at 0.284 in late trade. Hygeia (AT:HYGr) declined 3.45% or 0.005 points to end at 0.140 and Hellenic Telec (AT:OTEr) shed 3.39% or 0.28 points to 7.97.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 50 to 35 and 22 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.20% or 2.65 to $1328.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 3.05% or 1.41 to hit $44.88 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 2.46% or 1.19 to trade at $47.13 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.03% to 1.1238, while EUR/GBP rose 1.25% to 0.8529.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.28% at 95.39.