Stock prices recorded strong upward trends in today’s Stock Exchange session, with the market exceeding the levels of 1,420 units.

Banking stocks outperformed in the wake of the denial of rumors of an extraordinary tax on banks.

The General Price Index closed at 1,424.33 points, recording a gain of 2.21%.

Intra-session recorded a higher price at 1,426.40 units (+2.36%)

The value of transactions amounted to 125.77 million. euros, while 36,293,561 shares were traded.

The large-cap index rose 2.83%, while the mid-cap index gained 0.78%.

Of the high capitalization shares, the biggest increase was recorded by the shares of Eurobank (+5.60%), Alpha Bank (+4.94%), Piraeus (+4.76%), Ethniki (+4. 17%) and Mytilene (+3.73%).

On the contrary, the shares of PPA (-0.32%), Lamda (-0.28%) and Terna Energy (-0.10%) recorded a slight decline.

The largest volume of transactions was presented by Alpha Bank and Eurobank, trading 12,023,051 and 11,743,527 shares, respectively

The highest transaction value was recorded by Eurobank with 22.36 million. euros and Alpha Bank with 18.18 million euro.

61 stocks moved up, 33 fell and 23 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Doppler +9.26% and Frigoglass +6.73%.

The biggest drop was registered by the shares of Voiatzoglou -4.55% and Nafpaktos Textiles -4.05%.

Stocks in the large-cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 39.8000 +2.71%

ALPHA BANK: 1.5390 +4.94%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 9.7000 +2.32%

VIOHALCO: 5.3300 +3.09%

GEK TERNA: 18.8200 +1.07%

AIA: 8.1500 +1.24%

PPC: 11.7700 +2.79%

COCA COLA HBC:34.1200 +1.91%

ELLAKTOR: 1.7840 +2.53%

ELPE: 6.9700 +2.58%

ELVALHALCOR: 1.9320 +3.43%

NATIONAL: 6.9440 +4.17%

EYDAP: 5.8900 +0.86%

EUROBANK: 2.1120 +5.60%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 7.1700 -0.28%

MOTOR OIL: 20.1000 +2.50%

JUMBO: 25.0000 +1.30%

MYTILINEOS:32.2200 +3.73%

PPA:31.2500 -0.32%

OPAP: 15.5100 unchanged

OTE: 15.0200 +0.54%

AUTOHELLAS:10.4800 +1.16%

PIRAEUS: 3.6300 +4.76%

SARANTIS: 10.8000 +0.75%

TERNA ENERGY:19.8700 -0.10%