Stock prices were under strong pressure at today’s Stock Exchange sessionh, with the market retreating below the levels of 1,270 units.

The market completed four bearish sessions during which the main stock market index recorded total losses of 3.87%.

Banking stocks were at the center of liquidations, while the total market capitalization fell by 2.1 billion euros compared to Friday’s session.

The General Price Index closed at 1,267.33 points, down 2.47%.

The value of transactions amounted to 86.53 million euros, while 25,524,056 shares were traded.

The large-cap index fell 2.92%, while the mid-cap index fell 2.00%.

Of the high capitalization shares, the shares of Terna Energy (+0.79%), Sarantis (+0.39%) and Autohellas (+0.30%) recorded an increase.

On the contrary, the largest decline was recorded by the shares of Jumbo (-4.93%), National (-4.92%), Eurobank (-4.85%), Ellaktor (-4.70%)Aegean (- 4.39%) and Alpha Bank (-4.28%).

All the individual indices closed with a fall and the biggest losses were recorded by the indices of Personal Products (-4.50%), Banks (-4.28%) and Financial Services (-4.04%).

The largest volume of transactions was presented by Alpha Bank and Piraeus, trading 7,258,588 and 5,428,276 shares, respectively.

The highest transaction value was recorded by Piraeus with 16.62 million euros and National with 10.91 million euros.

15 stocks moved up, 94 fell and 10 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Mermeren +7.11% and Euroconsultants +4.74%.

The biggest drop was registered by the shares: Frigoglass -9.52% and Intralot -7.43%.

The stocks in the large cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 17.6800 -2.75%

ALPHA BANK: 1.4420 -4.28%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 12.6200 -4.39%

VIOHALCO: 6.5700 -3.52%

GEK TERNA: 12.8600 -2.72%

PPC: 9.8250 -2.82%

COCA COLA HBC: 26.1400 -0.98%

ELLAKTOR: 2.3300 -4.70%

ELPE: 7.9300 -2.82%

ELVALHALCOR: 2.0800 -3.26%

NATIONAL: 5.8000 -4.92%

EYDAP: 6.5700 -0.30%

EUROBANK: 1.5100 -4.85%

STOCK QUEST: 6.2200 -2.51%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 6.6000 -1.79%

MOTOR OIL: 22.7200 -1.82%

JUMBO: 27.0200 -4.93%

MYTILINEOS: 36.1000 -2.96%

PPA: 21,900 -0.23%

OPAP: 15.6200 -1.76%

OTE: 13.8500 -1.14%

AUTOHELLAS:13.5600 +0.30%

PIRAEUS: 3.0600 -2.24%

SARANTIS: 7.7800 +0.39%

TERNA ENERGY: 16.6300 +0.79%