Investing.com – Greece stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil&Gas, Healthcare and Food sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite rose 0.46%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Sarantiseg (AT:SRSr), which rose 3.50% or 0.50 points to trade at 14.80 at the close. Meanwhile, ThesKi Port (AT:OLTr) added 2.72% or 0.70 points to end at 26.40 and Elvalhalcor Hellenic Copper and Aluminium Industry SA (AT:ELHA) was up 2.21% or 0.030 points to 1.385 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Crete Plastics SA (AT:PLAKR), which fell 7.38% or 1.100 points to trade at 13.800 at the close. K.L.M. (AT:KLUr) declined 1.66% or 0.012 points to end at 0.710 and Jumbo SA (AT:BABr) was down 1.61% or 0.230 points to 14.090.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 63 to 46 and 12 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.02% or 0.20 to $1303.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.51% or 0.34 to hit $66.44 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.04% or 0.03 to trade at $76.49 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.03% to 1.1787, while EUR/GBP rose 0.03% to 0.8812.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 93.57.
