Investing.com – Greece equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Financials, Utilities and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite fell 1.28%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr), which rose 10.83% or 0.072 points to trade at 0.737 at the close. Centric Hold (AT:DESr) added 7.78% or 0.007 points to end at 0.097 and National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) was up 4.35% or 0.01 points to 0.24 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Grivalia Properties REIC (AT:GRIr), which lost 13.75% or 1.03 points to trade at 6.46 in late trade. Athens Water (AT:EYDr) declined 9.66% or 0.42 points to end at 3.93 and Hell.Exchanges (AT:EXCr) shed 8.37% or 0.44 points to 4.82.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 63 to 29 and 14 ended unchanged on the Athens Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for April delivery was down 0.85% or 10.80 to $1254.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $40.20 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.55% or 0.23 to trade at $41.77 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.26% to 1.1287, while EUR/GBP fell 0.40% to 0.7784.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.17% at 94.93.