Upward trends, with limited turnover, prevailed in today’s session of the Stock Exchange, amid upward movement in the European markets as well.

The market recovered after five bearish sessions during which the main stock index had recorded a total loss of 2.74%.

The General Price Index closed at 1,419.24 points, marking an increase of 0.88%.

On a weekly basis, the main stock market index recorded a 1.66% drop, while since the beginning of the year it has recorded gains of 9.75%.

The value of transactions amounted to 79.99 million euros, while 20,389,273 shares were traded.

The large-cap index rose 0.94%, while the mid-cap index gained 0.97%.

Of the high capitalization shares, the biggest increase was recorded by the shares of Elvalhalcor (+3.89%), OPAP (+2.37%), PPC (+2.24%), Jumbo (+2.18 %) and Ellaktor (+1.54%).

On the contrary, the largest decline was recorded by the shares of Aegean (-0.47%), Sarantis (-0.37%) and Piraeus (-0.23%).

Eurobank and Alpha Bank presented the largest volume of transactions, trading 6,481,897 and 3,471,995 shares, respectively.

The highest value of transactions was recorded by National Bank with 14.60 million euros and Eurobank with 12.32 million euros.

63 stocks moved up, 33 fell and 25 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Ave +8.05% and Mouzakis (k) +6.50%.

The biggest drop was recorded by the shares: Attica Bank -10.40% and Geniki Emporio -9.27%.

Stocks in the large-cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 31.7000 +0.63%

ALPHA BANK: 1.5100 +0.67%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 10.7000 -0.47%

VIOHALCO: 5.5400 +0.36%

GEK TERNA: 17.2000 +1.30%

AIA:7.7000 -0.13%

PPC: 11.4000 +2.24%

COCA COLA HBC:33.4600 -0.12%

ELLAKTOR: 1.9800 +1.54%

ELPE: 7.0550 +1.36%

ELVALHALCOR: 1.8700 +3.89%

NATIONAL: 7.3060 +0.22%

EYDAP: 5.6400 -0.18%

EUROBANK: 1.9755 +1.39%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 6.9900 +1.30%

MOTOR OIL: 21.6600 +1.21%

JUMBO: 24.3800 +2.18%

MYTILINEOS: 33.7600 +1.56%

PPA:26.8500 +0.56%

OPAP: 16.0000 +2.37%

OTE: 14.9700 +0.74%

AUTOHELLAS:10.9800 +0.18%

PIRAEUS: 3.8770 -0.23%

SARANTIS: 10.9600 +0.37%

TERNA ENERGY: 19.3600 unchanged