Greek stocks end higher‏

Gazzetta team 25 Σεπτεμβρίου 2015 - 19:54

Greek stocks ended higher in the last trading session of a negative week in the Athens Stock Exchange on Friday, although trading remained at very low levels once again.

The composite index of the market rose 1.10 pct to end at 675.17 points, off the day’s highs of 678.60 points, reversing a four-day decline which pushed the index 4.26 pct down. The index ended the week with a net loss of 3.21 pct, it is up 8.17 pct so far in September but 18.28 pct down so far this year.

The Large Cap index rose 1.30 pct and the Mid Cap index rose 1.19 pct. Turnover was a low 17.51 million euros with volume of 78,059,834.

Alpha Bank (8.87 pct), Eurobank (6.90 pct) and Piraeus Bank (5.62 pct) were top gainers among blue chip stocks, while Hellenic Exchanges (1.70 pct), Aegean Airlines (1.12 pct) and Titan (1.11 pct) suffered heavy losses.

Among market sectors, Banks (6.15 pct), Chemicals (3.63 pct) and Oil (2.07 pct) scored big gains, while Insurance (2.07 pct), Financial Services (1.52 pct) and Real Estate (0.30 pct) suffered heavy losses.

Broadly, advancers led decliners by 52 to 37 with another 14 issues unchanged. Progressive (18.84 pct), Akritas (18.42 pct) and Kekrops (9.32 pct) were top gainers, while Audiovisual (29.57 pct), Kathimerini (19.42 pct) and Dionic (19.23 pct) were top losers.