Stock prices closed lower in today’s Stock Exchange session, returning to negative territory after yesterday’s upward reaction.

The market followed the decline in European markets as well, which retreated on heightened concerns about the path of the global economy as major central banks continued to tighten policy to tackle inflation.

The General Price Index closed at 1,263.03 points, down 0.74%.

Intra-sessionally it recorded a lower price at 1,260.74 points (-0.92%).

The value of transactions amounted to 105.88 million euros, while 37,098,460 shares were traded.

The large-cap index fell 0.82%, while the mid-cap index fell 0.41%.

Among the high capitalization shares, the shares of Mytileneos (+0.61%), Coca Cola HBC (+0.37%) and Sarantis (+0.27%) recorded an increase.

On the contrary, the biggest fall was recorded by the shares of Alpha Bank (-2.60%), PPA (-2.39%), Quest Participations (-2.38%), Viohalco (-2.18%) and of Piraeus (-1.91%).

Of the individual indices, the largest increase was recorded by the indices of Industrial Products (+0.42%) and Food (+0.35%), while the largest losses were recorded by the indices of Health (-2.95%), of Financial Services (-2.00%) and Banks 9-1.82%).

The largest volume of transactions was presented by Alpha Bank and Eurobank, trading 16,322,413 and 6,490,676 shares, respectively.

The highest transaction value was recorded by Alpha Bank with 24.57 million euros and Piraeus with 14.31 million euros.

29 stocks moved up, 79 fell and 15 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Sato +9.52% and Ideal (k) +6.34%.

The biggest drop was registered by the shares: Elinoil -6.20% and Mermeren -5.64%.

The stocks in the large cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 17.1600 unchanged

ALPHA BANK: 1.4965 -2.60%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 10.7200 -0.56%

AUTOHELLAS:13.3800 -1.47%

VIOHALCO: 5.8300 -2.18%

GEK TERNA: 14.4400 -1.37%

PPC: 9.9850 -1.14%

COCA COLA HBC:27.2800 +0.37%

ELLAKTOR: 2.3350 -1.48%

ELPE: 8.3300 -0.83%

ELVALHALCOR: 2.0400 -0.97%

NATIONAL: 5.7420 -1.00%

EYDAP: 6.6800 -1.04%

EUROBANK: 1.4700 -1.80%

STOCK QUEST: 6.1500 -2.38%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 6.5800 -1.20%

MOTOR OIL: 24.8600 unchanged

JUMBO:23.9400 -0.25%

MYTILINEOS: 33.0000 +0.61%

PPA:20.4000 -2.39%

OPAP: 15.9000 -0.93%

OTE: 15.0000 -0.46%

PIRAEUS:2.7760 -1.91%

SARANTIS: 7.5200 +0.27%

TERNA ENERGY: 20.8000 -0.48%.