Stock prices moved upward in today’s (Tuesday) session of the Stock Exchange, with the market closing to new one-year highs and new 9-plus-year highs; over 1,340 units. From the high capitalization stocks of Viohalco, Aegean, Alpha Bank, Piraeus and Ethniki outperformed.

The General Price Index closed at 1,345.95 units, rising 0.64%.

It is the highest close since the April 2, 2014 session (1,353.01 points). Intra-sessionally it recorded a higher price at 1,349.67 units (+0.92%). The value of transactions amounted to 89.12 million euros, while 24,139,408 shares were traded.

The large-cap index rose at a rate of 0.59%, while the mid-cap index increased by 1.05%. Of the high capitalization shares, the biggest increase was recorded by the shares of Viohalco (+5.12%), Aegean Airlines (+2.62%), Alpha Bank (+2.37%), Piraeus (+2.03%), Ethniki (+1.96%), Elvalhalcor (+1.75%) and Titan (+1.74%).

On the contrary, the largest decline was recorded by the shares of PPA (-1.51%), Jumbo (-1.42%), ELPE (-0.89%) and Ellaktor (-0.78%). Of the individual indices, the largest increase was recorded by the indices of Raw Materials (+3.36%0) and Financial Services (+2.39%), while the largest losses were recorded by the indices of personal products (-1.19%) and Food (-0.56%).

The largest volume of transactions was presented by Alpha Bank and Eurobank, trading 6,343,232 and 3,898,010 shares, respectively. Alpha Bank recorded the highest value of transactions with 10.52 million euros and Piraeus with 9.84 million euros. 69 stocks moved up, 43 fell and 11 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Domiki Kritis +22.94% and Unibios +9.91%. The biggest drop was registered by the shares: VIS -4.88% and Tjirakian -3.04%.

The stocks in the large cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 18.7600 +1.74%

ALPHA BANK: 1.6605 +2.37%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 13.3400 +2.62%

AUTOHELLAS:13.9800 +0.72%

VIOHALCO: 6.7800 +5.12%

GEK TERNA: 14.3000 +1.13%

PPC: 10.9900 -0.09%

COCA COLA HBC:27.5400 -0.58%

ELLAKTOR: 2.5400 -0.78%

ELPE: 7.8300 -0.89%

ELVALHALCOR: 2.3200 +1.75%

NATIONAL: 6.3360 +1.96%

EYDAP: 6.8300 +0.89%

EUROBANK: 1.6200 -0.61%

STOCK QUEST: 6.5100 +0.15%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 7.1250 -0.07%

MOTOR OIL: 23.4400 +0.86%

JUMBO: 27.6800 -1.42%

MYTILINEOS: 36.1600 +1.18%

PPA: 22.8500 -1.51%

OPAP: 16.3900 +1.05%

OTE: 14.3500 -0.42%

PIRAEUS: 3.5240 +2.03%

SARANTIS: 7.8700 +0.64%

TERNA ENERGY: 17.8200 -0.56%