Traders connected the Greek stock marketplace appeared rather reserved astatine the start of a week that will bring involvement complaint decisions from respective cardinal banks astir the world. The week’s archetypal league astatine Athinon Avenue painted a mixed picture, with the benchmark and bluish chips yielding some ground, the losing stocks outnumbering the gainers by the smallest of margins and mid-caps posting insignificant gains.
The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) wide scale closed astatine 2,057.56 points, shedding 0.25% from Friday’s 2,062.73 points. The large-cap FTSE-25 scale contracted 0.27%, ending astatine 5,183.16 points, conscionable arsenic mid-caps expanded 0.13%.
The banks scale declined 0.63%, arsenic National parted with 1.09%, Eurobank mislaid 1.03%, Alpha fell 0.77%, Bank of Cyprus gave up 0.26% and Piraeus slipped 0.08%, though Optima climbed 1.97%. Cenergy Holdings grew 1.60% and Viohalco precocious 1.33%.
In total 49 stocks boasted gains, 50 posted losses and 21 remained unchanged.
Turnover amounted to 163 cardinal euros, down from past Friday’s €218.3 million.
In Nicosia the wide scale of the Cyprus Stock Exchange accrued 0.80% to adjacent astatine 293.34 points.