Stock prices closed slightly higher in today’s Stock Exchange session, as the market failed to hold on to all of its initial gains amid low trading activity.

The General Price Index closed at 1,481.23 points, marking an increase of 0.24%.

Intra-sessionally it recorded a higher price at 1,494.49 units (+1.14%).

The value of the transactions amounted to 81.98 million euros, while 12,909,882 shares were traded.

The large-cap index rose 0.54%, while the mid-cap index fell 0.41%.

Of the high capitalization shares, the biggest increase was recorded by the shares of OTE (+2.98%), Ethniki (+2.34%), Eurobank (+1.87%) and Motor Oil (+1. 57%).

On the contrary, the biggest fall was registered by the shares of Quest Participations (-2.91%), Coca Cola HBC (-2.22%), Aegean Airlines (-2.10%) and Viohalco (-1.98% ).

Eurobank and Alpha Bank presented the largest volume of transactions, trading 3,058,385 and 2,861,456 shares, respectively.

Mytilineos with 23.94 million euros and Ethniki with 6.69 million euros recorded the highest transaction value.

50 stocks advanced, 55 declined and 15 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Ave +9.09% and Bitros +7.21%.

The biggest drop was registered by the shares: Agrotikos Oikos Spyros -9.88% and Kyriakoulis -5.43%.

Stocks in the large-cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 31.4000 -1.26%

ALPHA BANK: 1.7180 +1.06%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 12.1000 -2.10%

VIOHALCO: 6.4400 -1.98%

GEK TERNA: 16.6000 -0.36%

PPC: 11.6000 unchanged

COCA COLA HBC:31.6800 -2.22%

ELLAKTOR: 2.5900 -1.15%

ELPE: 8.5000 -0.93%

ELVALHALCOR: 1.9620 -0.81%

NATIONAL: 8.4900 +2.34%

EYDAP: 6.0300 +1.34%

EUROBANK: 2.1200 +1.87%

STOCK QUEST: 5.3400 -2.91%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 6.8300 +1.19%

MOTOR OIL: 28.4400 +1.57%

JUMBO: 27.0800 -0.88%

MYTILINEOS: 37.5000 +1.52%

PPA:23.9000 -1.04%

OPAP: 15.0200 -0.40%

OTE: 14.1600 +2.98%

AUTOHELLAS:12.1000 -1.63%

PIRAEUS: 3.8090 +0.50%

SARANTIS: 11.1800 +0.54%

TERNA ENERGY: 18.2600 +0.72%