ATHEX: Healthy rise for majority of blue chips

[AP]

After the archetypal mates of hours successful Wednesday’s bourse session, stocks astatine Athinon Avenue started a mini rally that gave them important gains successful the end, though this chiefly acrophobic bluish chips, led by banks, while mid-caps had a overmuch weaker maturation complaint and turnover was rather reduced compared with Tuesday.

The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) wide scale closed astatine 2,056.38 points, adding 1.09% to Tuesday’s 2,034.22 points. The large-cap FTSE-25 scale expanded 1.17%, ending astatine 5,196.22 points.

The banks scale jumped 2.33%, thanks to National soaring 3.48%, Piraeus pursuing with a 3.27% rise, Eurobank earning 2.29% and Alpha climbing 1.47%, while Bank of Cyprus parted with 0.74% and Optima gave up 0.47%.

In total 54 stocks obtained gains, 50 showed losses and 16 remained unchanged.

Turnover amounted to 219.2 cardinal euros, down from Tuesday’s €363.8 million.

In Nicosia, Cyprus Stock Exchange remained closed owed to a nationalist holiday.

Meanwhile the PDMA auctioned 13-week treasury bills connected Wednesday, drafting €500 cardinal astatine an involvement complaint of 1.78%, conscionable up connected the erstwhile issue’s 1.76%.