Share prices recorded significant losses in today’s session of the Stock Exchangewith the market retreating towards the 1,100 levels as investors liquidated to lock in some of the high gains recorded since the beginning of the year.

Today’s drop is the second substantial correction since the beginning of 2023, after the drop on January 19th (-2.20%).

At the center of liquidations were the shares of the banking sector.

The General Price Index closed at 1,101.30 points, recording losses of 1.82%.

The value of transactions amounted to 115.28 million euros, while 35,330,663 shares were traded.

The large-cap index fell 2.03%, while the mid-cap index fell 1.59%.

Among the high capitalization shares, the shares of Coca Cola HBC (+0.84%) and Quest Participations (+0.58%) recorded an increase.

On the contrary, the biggest fall was recorded by the shares of Eurobank (-4.74%), Alpha Bank (-4.37%), Piraeus (-4.09%), Motor Oil (-3.45%) and of the National (-3.33%).

From the individual indices, the Health (+3.75%) and Food (+0.82%) indices rose, while the biggest losses were recorded by the Banking (-4.19%) and Oil (- 2.74%).

Eurobank and Alpha Bank presented the largest volume of transactions, trading 9,047,773 and 7,613,754 shares, respectively.

The highest transaction value was recorded by National Bank with 14.12 million euros and Eurobank with 12.84 million euros

12 stocks advanced, 100 declined and 17 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: KREKA +7.22% and Medicon +3.75%.

The biggest drop was registered by the shares: Tria ‘Alfa (p) -13.33% and Tria ‘Alfa (k) -6.04%.

The stocks in the large cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 15.4400 -2.28%

ADMIE: 1.9180 -1.44%

ALPHA BANK: 1.4000 -4.87%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 7.4800 -0.66%

VIOHALCO:4.6100 -1.91%

GEK TERNA: 911.3200 -2.58%

PPC: 7.9800 -0.81%

COCA COLA HBC:24.1000 +0.84%

ELLAKTOR: 2.1600 -0.92%

ELPE: 8.3700 -0.83%

ELVALHALCOR: 1.8020 -2.59%

NATIONAL: 4.9300 -3.33%

EYDAP: 7.1500 -0.14%

EUROBANK: 1.3980 -4.74%

STOCK QUEST: 5.1600 +0.58%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 6.3000 -0.16%

MOTOR OIL: 24.1000 -3.45%

JUMBO: 18.7600 -1.26%

MYTILINEOS: 24.8800 -1.27%

PPA: 18.5000 unchanged

OPAP: 14.5500 -1.56%

OTE: 15.2000 -0.07%

PIRAEUS:2.2730 -4.09%

SARANTIS: 7.1400 -0.28%

TERNA ENERGY: 18.8000 -0.42%