Falling trends prevailed in today’s (Wednesday) session of the Stock Exchange, with the market retreating towards the levels of 1,400 units. At the center of the liquidations were the banks, mainly Ethniki and Eurobak, while Motor Oil and Mytileneos were pressured, due to the dividend cut. OPAP and Titan shares closed with high profits.

The General Price Index closed at 1,406.24 points, down 0.97%.

Intra-session recorded a lower price at 1,399.55 points (-1.44%).

The value of transactions amounted to 166.47 million euros, while 42,851,913 shares were traded.

The large-cap index fell 1.08%, while the mid-cap index fell 1.12%.

Of the high capitalization shares, the biggest increase was recorded by the shares of OPAP (+2.97%), Titan (+2.07%), GEK TRNA (+0.85%), and ELPE (+0 .51%).

On the contrary, the largest decline was recorded by the shares of Motor Oil (-5.25%), Mytileneos (-3.42%), National Bank (-2.46%), Eurobank (-2.02%), the AIA (-1.90%) and Jumbo (-1.85%).

Without the right to the dividend, the shares of Motor Oil (1.40 euros), Mytilineos (-1.50 euros) are trading from today.

The largest volume of transactions was presented by Eurobank and Alpha Bank, trading 13,027,479 and 9,709,010 shares, respectively

The highest transaction value was recorded by National Bank with 30.52 million euros and Eurobank with 27.25 million euros.

37 stocks moved up, 70 down and 10 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Doppler +9.88% and Hector +3.52%.

The biggest drop was registered by the shares: Intercontinental International -25.44% and SIDMA -8.26%.

Stocks in the large-cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 29.5500 +2.07%

ALPHA BANK: 1.4660 -0.54%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 11.0200 unchanged

VIOHALCO: 5.8000 +0.35%

GEK TERNA: 16.7000 +0.85%

AIA:7.8280 -1.90%

PPC: 11.0000 -1.61%

COCA COLA HBC:32.3600 -0.12%

ELLAKTOR: 2.4500 -0.61%

ELPE: 7.9400 +0.51%

ELVALHALCOR: 1.7700 -0.90%

NATIONAL: 7.6280 -2.46%

EYDAP: 5.5400 -0.18%

EUROBANK: 2.0850 -2.02%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 6.5800 -0.45%

MOTOR OIL: 23.8400 -5.25%

JUMBO: 26.5000 -1.85%

MYTILINEOS: 35.0000 -3.42%

PPA:25.4000 -0.20%

OPAP: 14.9000 +2.97%

OTE: 13.7300 -0.44%

AUTOHELLAS:11.3000 -0.88%

PIRAEUS: 3.3500 -0.71%

SARANTIS: 11.0000 unchanged

TERNA ENERGY: 19.3800 +0.05%