Stock prices were under strong pressure in the last meeting of the weekwith the market retreating to the levels of 1,020 units, under the weight of liquidations in banking shares.

The domestic stock market followed the negative climate that prevails in the European markets, with banking shares and especially the Deutsche Bank share being the target of liquidations.

The sharp increase in the cost of insurance against the default risk (CDS) of Deutsche Bank has caused concern in the markets.

The General Price Index closed at 1,021.16 points, down 2.97%.

Intra-sessionally it recorded a lower price at 1,019.30 points (-3.15%).

On a weekly basis, the main stock market index recorded a slight increase of 0.10%, since the beginning of March it has declined by 9.57%, while since the beginning of 2023 it has strengthened to a percentage of 9.83%.

The value of the transactions amounted to 93.95 million euros, while 36,347,384 shares were traded.

The large-cap index fell 3.44%, while the mid-cap index fell 1.96%.

All the shares closed with a fall and the biggest losses were recorded by the shares of Alpha Bank (-6.03%), National Bank (-5.97%), Eurobank (-5.71%), Piraeus (- 5.17%) and Jumbo (-4.26%).

Of the individual indices, only the Health index (+1.66%) saw an increase, while the biggest losses were recorded by the Banks (-5.78%), Personal Products (-3.92%) and Prime indices Materials (-3.30%).

The largest volume of transactions was presented by Alpha Bank and Eurobank, trading 13,351,944 and 7,804,231 shares, respectively.

Alpha Bank recorded the highest transaction value with 14.83 million euros and National Bank with 12.51 million euros.

17 stocks moved up, 84 fell and 26 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Akritas +11.11% and Mouzakis +8.59%.

The biggest drop was registered by the shares: Frigoglass -9.21% and Kecrops -7.86%.

The stocks in the large cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 14.14000 -3.28%

ADMIE: 1.7100 -3.72%

ALPHA BANK: 1.0900 -6.03%

AEGEAN AIRLINES:7.0500 -1.95%

VIOHALCO: 4.0600 -3.68%

GEK TERNA: 11.0000 -2.83%

PPC: 7.7600 -1.40%

COCA COLA HBC:24.7200 -0.28%

ELLAKTOR: 2.1050 -1.41%

ELPE: 7.2800 -2.93%

ELVALHALCOR: 1.5500 -3.85%

NATIONAL: 4.3500 -5.97%

EYDAP: 6.6000 -1.49%

EUROBANK: 1.1900 -5.71%

STOCK QUEST: 4.9450 -0.50%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 5.6500 -1.99%

MOTOR OIL: 22.1200 -3.24%

JUMBO: 18.6700 -4.26%

MYTILINEOS: 24.6600 -2.68%

PPA:19.0600 -1.55%

OPAP: 14.6000 -3.63%

OTE: 13.0900 -1.65%

PIRAEUS: 1.8800 -5.17%

SARANTIS: 6.4500 -2.57%

TERNA ENERGY: 18.4000 -2.65%