Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking, Telecoms and Utilities sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite rose 0.53%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Centric Hold (AT:DESr), which rose 4.29% or 0.007 points to trade at 0.170 at the close. Meanwhile, National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) added 3.40% or 0.012 points to end at 0.365 and Attica Bank SA (AT:BOAr) was up 3.00% or 0.003 points to 0.103 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Selonda Aquaculture SA (AT:SELr), which fell 5.83% or 0.0140 points to trade at 0.2260 at the close. Iaso (AT:IASr) declined 3.09% or 0.025 points to end at 0.785 and Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) was down 2.87% or 0.009 points to 0.305.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 67 to 30 and 13 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.30% or 3.90 to $1290.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.25% or 0.12 to hit $48.70 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.52% or 0.27 to trade at $51.83 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.33% to 1.1783, while EUR/GBP fell 0.12% to 0.9076.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 93.26.