Stock prices recorded high gains in today’s Stock Exchange sessionwith the market breaking upwards and the levels of 1,230 units.

Banking shares were at the center of investment interest, in the wake of the information about an impressive overbooking of the offer book for the allocation of 20% of National Bank from the Financial Stability Fund.

The rise in prices was also accompanied by an increase in the volume of transactions, while the total market capitalization increased by 1.9 billion euros compared to yesterday’s session.

The General Price Index closed at 1,235.27 points, recording a gain of 2.47%.

The value of the transactions amounted to 124.87 million euros, while 38,363,682 shares were traded.

The large-cap index gained 2.87%, while the mid-cap index gained 1.90%.

Of the high capitalization shares, the biggest increase was recorded by the shares of Piraeus (+7.07%), Alpha Bank (+6.02%), Ethniki (+5.80%), Eurobank (+5. 37%) and Motor Oil (+4.74%).

On the contrary, the shares of Ellactor (-0.45%) and Coca Cola HBC (-0.08%) fell.

Of the individual indices, the Banks (+5.93%), Financial Services (+5.37%) and Oil (+4.36%) indices recorded the biggest increase, while only the indices of Food (-0.09%).

Eurobank and Alpha Bank presented the largest volume of transactions, trading 9,976,008 and 8,059,113 shares, respectively.

The highest transaction value was recorded by National Bank with 18.74 million euros and Eurobank with 15.54 million euros.

84 stocks moved up, 19 fell and 15 remained stable.

The biggest increase was registered by the shares: Eliketos +10.00% and Vioter +9.76%.

The biggest drop was recorded by the shares: Vidavo -3.97% and Tria Alpha(k) -3.77%.

Stocks in the large cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 19.2400 +0.63%

ALPHA BANK: 1.4785 +6.02%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 11.8000 +4.06%

VIOHALCO: 5.1300 +4.27%

GEK TERNA: 13.4600 +0.60%

PPC: 10.4400 +1.85%

COCA COLA HBC: 23.9700 -0.08%

ELLAKTOR: 2.1900 -0.45%

ELPE: 7.7400 +3.20%

ELVALHALCOR: 1.7220 +3.99%

NATIONAL: 5.8000 +5.80%

EYDAP: 5.7400 +0.88%

EUROBANK: 1.5800 +5.37%

STOCK QUEST: 5.7100 +4.58%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 6.3050 +0.72%

MOTOR OIL: 22.9800 +4.74%

JUMBO: 26.2000 +0.92%

MYTILINEOS: 35,000 +1.45%

PPA: 22.0000 +0.92%

OPAP: 14.9000 unchanged

OTE: 12.9000 +2.14%

AUTOHELLAS: 12.6600 unchanged

PIRAEUS: 3.0300 +7.07%

SARANTIS: 8.1300+1.63%

TERNA ENERGY: 15.2500 +2.97%