Greek stocks continue moving higher‏

Gazzetta team 7 Οκτωβρίου 2015 - 19:13

Greek stocks moved higher for the third successive session in the Athens Stock Exchange on Wednesday, pushing the composite index of the market towards the 680-point level, amid a positive climate in European markets and a significant improvement in the domestic state bond market where the 10-year bond yield fell below 8.0 pct.

The composite index of the market grew 1.40 pct to end at 680.10 points, with the Large Cap index rising 1.92 pct and the Mid Cap index ending up 0.29 pct. Turnover was an improved 61.634 million euros, of which 17.67 million were a block trade in OTE at 8.58 euros per share. Volume was 143,562,746.

National Bank (7.39 pct), PPC (7.37 pct) and Hellenic Exchanges (6.43 pct) were top gainers among blue chip stocks, while Piraeus Bank (3.57 pct), Terna Energy (2.44 pct) and Titan (1.99 pct) suffered heavy losses.

Among market sectors, Financial Services (6.20 pct), Utilities (4.02 pct) and Telecoms (3.5 pct) scored big gains, while Construction (1.03 pct) and Health (0.80 pct) suffered losses.

Broadly, advancers led decliners by 50 to 44 with another 13 issues unchanged. Akritas (18.52 pct), Progressive (17.91 pct) and G.E.Demetriou (14.29 pct) were top gainers, while Autohellas (17.27 pct), Dionic (17.14 pct) and Dromeas (16.67 pct) were top losers.