Stock market: New eight-year highs and close at 997.81 points

Strong upward trends were registered by share prices in today’s session of the Stock Exchange, with the market closing just below the psychological barrier of 1,000 points, marking new eight-year highs.

The General Price Index closed at 997.81 points, marking an increase of 1.92%.

During the session, the market was just before the psychological barrier of 1,000 points, at 999.67 points (+2.11%). It should be noted that the last time the main stock market index closed above 1,000 points was in the session of December 8, 2014 (1,035.08 points).

The value of the transactions amounted to 129.44 million euros, while 47,429,719 shares were traded.

The large-cap index gained 1.87%, while the mid-cap index gained 2.01%.

Of the high capitalization shares, the biggest increase was recorded by the shares of Sarantis (+5.70%), PPC (+4.93%), Piraeus (+4.79%) and Ethniki (+3.63 %).

On the contrary, the largest decline was recorded by the shares of Jumbo (-1.20%) and Ellaktor (-0.43%).

Of the individual indices, the Financial Services (+7.95%) and Banks (+3.15%) indices recorded the greatest increase, while the Health indices (-1.89%) and the Personal Products (-1.01%).

The largest volume of transactions was presented by Alpha Bank and Piraeus, trading 9,377,907 and 6,542,048 shares, respectively.

Mytileneos with 31.12 million euros and Piraeus with 11.77 million euros recorded the highest value of transactions.

87 stocks moved up, 19 fell and 25 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Attica Bank +29.92% and Mathios Pyrimaha +20.00%.

The biggest drop was recorded by the shares: Xylemporia (p) -17.69% and VIS -9.52%.

The stocks in the large cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 13.6600 +179%

ADMIE: 1.7820 +1.14%

ALPHA BANK: 1.1960 +3.46%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 6.0500 +2.20%

VIOHALCO: 4.3200 +2.98%

GEK TERNA: 11.7200 +0.34%

PPC: 7.2400 +4.93%

COCA COLA HBC:22.1000 +0.78%

ELLAKTOR: 2.2900 -0.43%

ELPE: 7.2600 +0.55%

ELVALHALCOR: 1.7620 +3.53%

NATIONAL: 4.2590 +3.63%

EYDAP: 6.7500 +1.96%

EUROBANK: 1.1990 +1.87%

STOCK QUEST: 5.2600 +0.38%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 5.8500 +3.17%

MOTOR OIL: 22.5400 +1.53%

JUMBO: 16.4000 -1.20%

MYTILINEOS: 22.6600 +2.07%

PPA: 17.0400 +0.59%

OPAP: 13.2400 +0.38%

OTE: 14.7000 +1.17%

PIRAEUS: 1.8035 +4.79%

SARANTIS: 7.9800 +5.70%

TERNA ENERGY: 20.3800 +0.20%

RES-EMP

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