The stock market returned to an upward trajectory in today’s session, after yesterday’s strong decline, while the rise in share prices was also accompanied by an increase in turnover.

From the high capitalization, the shares of Piraeus, Mytileneos, Ethniki and Ellactor outperformed.

O General Price Index closed at 1,315.89 points, up 0.93%. Intra-sessionally it recorded a higher price at 1,318.58 units (+1.13%). The value of transactions amounted to 124.32 million euros, while 29,105,889 shares were traded. The large-cap index gained 1.10%, while the mid-cap index gained 1.55%.

Of the high capitalization shares, the biggest increase was recorded by the shares of Piraeus (+5.39%), Mytileneos (+3.72%), Ethniki (+3.37%), Ellactor (+3.10 %), Sarantis (+2.11%) and Eurobank (+1.94%). On the contrary, the biggest fall was recorded by the shares of OTE (-1.94%), Terna Energy (-1.88%), OPAP (-0.99%) and EYDAP (-0.87%).

Of the individual indices, the greatest increase was recorded by the indices of Trade (+3.59%), Industrial products (+3.31%) and Banks (+2.62%), while the indices of Telecommunications (-1.95%) and Petroleum (-0.67%).

Piraeus and Alpha Bank presented the largest volume of transactions, trading 6,873,707 and 6,624,177 shares, respectively. Piraeus with 23.72 million euros and Mytileneos with 14.27 million euros recorded the highest value of transactions.

68 stocks moved up, 41 fell and 20 remained stable. The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Xylemporia (p) +18.75% and Domiki Kritis +15.85%. The biggest drop was registered by the shares: Reds -4.76% and Space Hellas -3.33%.

The stocks in the large cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 17.8600 +1.82%

ALPHA BANK: 1.6070 +0.78%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 12.3000 +1.82%

AUTOHELLAS:13.4400 -1.90%

VIOHALCO: 5.8000 +0.69%

GEK TERNA: 14.3400 +0.42%

PPC: 10.4000 +1.46%

COCA COLA HBC:27.2400 +0.33%

ELLAKTOR: 2.4950 +3.10%

ELPE: 7.7800 -0.77%

ELVALHALCOR: 2.0550 -0.48%

NATIONAL: 6.2020 +3.37%

EYDAP: 6.8000 -0.87%

EUROBANK: 1.6295 +1.94%

QUEST HOLDINGS: 6.4500 unchanged

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 7.1800 -0.14%

MOTOR OIL: 22.8600 -0.70%

JUMBO: 27.6000 -0.07%

MYTILINEOS: 34.5400 +3.72%

PPA: 22.5000 +0.90%

OPAP: 15.9400 -0.99%

OTE: 14.1600 -1.94%

PIRAEUS: 3.5220 +5.39%

SARANTIS: 7.7400 +2.11%

TERNA ENERGY: 17.7900 -1.88%