The Athens Stock Exchange found itself in the midst of the global sell-off today, with share prices registering a free fall, leading the market to levels of 1,340 units.

The Athens Stock Exchange followed the negative sentiment and the “sell-off” of shares in the international markets, which are retreating amid concerns about a possible recession in the American economy.

The free fall in share prices was accompanied by a surge in turnover, while the total market capitalization fell by 5.938 billion euros today.

The General Price Index closed at 1,341.23 points, recording heavy losses of 6.27%.

Intra-sessionally it recorded a lower price at 1,320.77 points (-7.70%).

Today’s decline limited the General Index’s annual gains to 3.72%.

The value of transactions amounted to 235.07 million euros, while 54,356,506 shares were traded.

The large-cap index fell 6.53%, while the mid-cap index fell 6.26%.

All the high capitalization shares closed with losses and the largest decline was recorded by the shares of Ellactor (-9.18%), Piraeus (-9.17%), Aegean Airlines (-8.51%), Viohalco (- 8.39%) and Mytileneos (-8.31%).

The largest volume of transactions was presented by Alpha Bank and Eurobank, trading 12,981,295 and 10,306,322 shares, respectively.

The highest value of transactions was recorded by Piraeus with 31.80 million euros and Alpha Bank with 19.61 million euros.

Indicative of the negative climate that prevailed today is the fact that just one share closed with an increase (Paputsanis +0.85%), 112 closed with a decrease and 15 remained stable.

The biggest drop was registered by the shares: Kordellos Brothers -11.64% and Geniki Emporiou -11.39%.

Stocks in the large cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 29.9500 -7.28%

ALPHA BANK: 1.5120 -7.07%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 10.1000 -8.51%

VIOHALCO: 5.2400 -8.39%

GEK TERNA: 16.0600 -7.17%

AIA:7.4300 -4.74%

PPC: 10.4600 -6.44%

COCA COLA HBC: 31.4600 -5.30%

ELLAKTOR: 1.8000 -9.18%

ELPE: 6.8000-6.01%

ELVALHALCOR: 1.6700 -7.73%

NATIONAL: 7.1740 -6.59%

EYDAP: 5.2400 -6.26%

EUROBANK: 1.8885 -7.74%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 6.9000 -6.50%

MOTOR OIL: 20.9000 -7.19%

JUMBO: 23.0800 -3.03%

MYTILINEOS: 32.2000 -8.31%

PPA: 24,900 -3.49%

OPAP: 14.8200 -5.61%

OTE: 14.0300 -5.07%

AUTOHELLAS: 10.6000 -5.69%

PIRAEUS: 3.4780 -9.17%

SARANTIS: 10.2800 -5.17%

TERNA ENERGY: 18.8500 -1.67%