Share prices recorded weak upward trends in today’s session of the Stock Exchange.

The market focused its interest on the announcement of the Alpha Bank – Unicredit deal and on the developments underway regarding the disinvestment of the HFSF in the National Bank.

The General Price Index closed at 1,205.55 points, marking an increase of 0.21%.

Intra-sessionally it recorded a higher price at 1,208.02 units (+0.44%) and a lower price at 1,196.46 units (-0.55%).

The value of the transactions soared to 400.54 million euros, of which 293.5 million euros refer to the package of 8.98% of Alpha Bank’s shares (211,138,299 shares) which was transferred by the HFSF to Unicredit.

The large-cap index was up 0.10%, while the mid-cap index was up 0.18%.

Of the high capitalization shares, the biggest increase was recorded by the shares of Piraeus (+2.98%), PPC (+2.80%), Sarantis (+1.27%) and Motor Oil (+1. 11%).

On the contrary, OPAP (-3.18%) and Elvalhalcor (-1.43%) shares recorded the biggest fall.

The share of Ethniki closed with an increase of 0.77% at 5.4820 euros, above the range of 5 – 5.44 euros which will be the sale price of 20% of the shares held by the HFSF. Alpha Bank’s share closed marginally down 0.04 at 1.3945 euros, slightly higher than 1.39 euros, the price at which 9% of Alpha Bank’s shares were transferred to UniCredit.

Of the individual indices, the biggest rise was recorded by the Utilities (+1.71%) and Oil (+0.99%) indices, while the biggest losses were recorded by the Travel indices (-2.70%) and of Health (-1.41%).

The largest volume of transactions was presented by Alpha Bank and Eurobank, trading 234,522,448 and 6,440,735 shares, respectively.

Alpha Bank recorded the highest value of transactions with 325.97 million euros and National Bank with 13.52 million euros.

53 stocks moved up, 52 fell and 20 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Kecrops +28.63% and Frigoglass +10.00%.

The biggest drop was registered by the shares: CNL Capital -17.55% and Chaidemenos -6.25%.

Stocks in the large cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 19.1200 +0.53%

ALPHA BANK: 1.3945 -0.04%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 11.3400 +0.71%

VIOHALCO: 4.9200 -0.61%

GEK TERNA: 13.3800 -0.15%

PPC: 10.2500 +2.30%

COCA COLA HBC:23.9900 -0.46%

ELLAKTOR: 2.2000 unchanged

ELPE: 7.5000 +0.67%

ELVALHALCOR: 1.6560 -1.43%

NATIONAL: 5.4820 +0.77%

EYDAP: 5.6900 +0.71%

EUROBANK: 1.4995 +0.30%

STOCK QUEST: 5.4600 -0.36%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 6.2600 +0.97%

MOTOR OIL: 21.9400 +1.11%

JUMBO: 25.9600 -0.08%

MYTILINEOS: 34.5000 -0.69%

PPA:21.8000 +0.69%

OPAP: 14.9000 -3.18%

OTE: 12.6300 -0.16%

AUTOHELLAS:12.6600 unchanged

PIRAEUS: 2.8300 +2.98%

SARANTIS: 8.0000 +1.27%

TERNA ENERGY: 14.8100 +0.95%