Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Travel, Retail and Banking sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite declined 1.62%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Marfin Invest (AT:MRFr), which rose 9.86% or 0.007 points to trade at 0.078 at the close. Meanwhile, J. & P. Avax (AT:AVAr) added 8.45% or 0.025 points to end at 0.321 and Techn Olympic (AT:OLYr) was up 7.85% or 0.055 points to 0.756 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Greek Organisation of Football Prognostics SA (AT:OPAr), which fell 10.93% or 0.885 points to trade at 7.215 at the close. National Bank of Greece (AT:NBGr) declined 4.41% or 0.01 points to end at 0.33 and Eurobank Ergasias SA (AT:EURBr) was down 3.85% or 0.040 points to 1.000.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 58 to 43 and 4 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was up 1.61% or 17.10 to $1077.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.70% or 0.26 to hit $36.78 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.25% or 0.10 to trade at $37.38 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.63% to 1.0787, while EUR/GBP fell 0.15% to 0.7355.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.50% at 99.27.