ATHENS: Greece stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking, Travel and Utilities sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite rose 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the Athens General-Composite were Athens Medical (AT:AMCr), which rose 6.97% or 0.049 points to trade at 0.760 at the close. Meanwhile, Autohellas (AT:AUTr) added 5.26% or 0.63 points to end at 12.60 and Aegean Airlines (AT:AGNr) was up 2.91% or 0.20 points to 7.07 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Iaso (AT:IASr), which fell 4.58% or 0.028 points to trade at 0.583 at the close. Centric Hold (AT:DESr) declined 3.74% or 0.004 points to end at 0.103 and Papoutsanis (AT:PSALr) was down 3.61% or 0.006 points to 0.160.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 52 to 49 and 25 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.29% or 3.45 to $1204.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.14% or 0.07 to hit $48.42 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.14% or 0.07 to trade at $51.44 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.05% to 1.0673, while EUR/GBP fell 0.68% to 0.8721.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.29% at 101.09.
