With 2.27% profits the stock market ended in the end week, with the market recording New High 14.5 years oldwhile with significant profits, March is closing against the… tradition that wants negative this month. At the same time, the Athens Stock Exchange is at the top of the world market rankings in the first quarter of 2025.

It takes third place in performance, after the Russian and Polish stock market. At the same time, total market capitalization from the beginning of this year has increased over 18 billion euros, while the year is running with Average daily transactions of 171 million euros increased by 22.9% compared to last year.

In recent weeks, the market has been running with a key catalyst to upgrade the market to developed and looking in the future, the possible upgrading of the ASE to a developed market could be transformative.

Upgrading from Moody΄s, it can also lead the FTSE to open the Athens Stock Exchange’s path to developed markets.

On April 8, we will have the intermediate update from FTSE on the possible movement of Greece to developed markets from emerging markets.

This development is expected to come after 8 years of staying in the category of emerging markets, and confirms the progress that has been made in the critical figures of both our market and Greek listed companies.

The high profitability of listed companies supports shares’ valuations.

The durability of corporate profitability, which is reflected in high dividend yields, often exceeding the corresponding European like companies, further enhances the attractiveness of the Greek market.

To date the listed ones have distributed dividends of 3.8 billion eurosan amount exceeding the performance of the entire 2023 (2.95 billion), while last year they were distributed 4.2 billion euros. This is supportive as, on the one hand it improves market attractiveness, on the other hand, they limit pressures to liquids as they reinveit.

General price index closed the week in 1,735.68 unitscompared to 1,697.11 units of the previous week, with a weekly rise in 2.27%, from early March rose 7.95%, while earnings 18.10%since the beginning of the year.

The FTSE/ASE 25 high capitalization index closed a week with a rise of 2.54% and has made a profit of 20.33% since the beginning of 2025.

The FTSE MID mid -capitalization index closed with a weekly rise of 3.33%, and since the beginning of the year it rose 13.01%.

The banking index closed a week with a rose 1.21%, while in early 2025 it has earned 29.47%.

The total value of transactions at this week’s meetings amounted to EUR 1,021,873 million, while the average daily transaction value stood at EUR 255,468 million, from 282,347 million euros last week.

Total market capitalization in the week increased by 2,149 billion euros and stood at € 120.543 billion, and since the beginning of the year it has increased by € 17.398 billion.