Share prices closed with significant losses in the last session of the week, with banking shares being at the center of liquidations.

The market corrected after four bullish sessions, during which the main stock index registered a total gain of 2.56%.

O General Price Index closed at 2,011.41 points, the lowest levels of the day, down 1.32%.

Intra-sessionally it recorded a higher price at 2,045.18 units (+0.33%).

On a weekly basis, the main stock market index registered a rise of 1.20%, since the beginning of October it has fallen 1.12%, while since the beginning of the year it has gained 36.86%.

The total capitalization decreased by 1.4 billion euros compared to the previous session.

The value of the transactions amounted to 234.01 million euros, while 45,824,877 shares were traded.

The large-cap index fell 1.45%, while the mid-cap index gained 0.66%.

Of the high capitalization shares, the biggest increase was recorded by the shares of PPA (+2.51%), OPAP (+0.55%) and Elvalhalcor (+0.49%).

On the contrary, the biggest fall was recorded by the shares of Ethniki (-4.00%), Eurobank (-3.57%), Metlen (-3.41%), Sarantis (-2.77%), Optima Bank (-2.22%) and Cyprus (-2.01%).

The largest volume of transactions was presented by Alpha Bank and Eurobank, trading 23,334,032 and 5,706,247 shares, respectively.

Alpha Bank recorded the highest value of transactions with 83.15 million euros and National Bank with 30.08 million euros.

50 stocks advanced, 51 declined and 23 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: Elton Chemicals (+7.80%) and Nafpaktos Textiles (+6.20%).

The biggest drop was registered by the shares: Foodlink (-5.71%) and Chaidemenos (-5.45%).

Stocks in the large-cap index closed as follows:

AKTOR: 8.4800 unchanged

CYPRUS: 7.8000 -2.015

METLEN: 42.5000 -3.41%

OPTIMA: 7.9300 -2.22%

TITAN: 39.2500 +0.13%

ALPHA BANK: 3.5900 -0.28%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 13.2000 -1.79%

VIOHALCO: 8.1600 -0.97%

GEK TERNA: 23.1000 -0.52%

AIA: 10.0600 -0.40%

PPC: 14.7000 -0.14%

COCA COLA HBC: 39.9200 unchanged

ELPE: 8.2000 unchanged

ELVALHALCOR: 3.0650 +0.49%

NATIONAL: 12.7250 -4.00%

EYDAP: 7.0000 unchanged

EUROBANK: 3.3750 -3.57%

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 7.2500 -0.68%

MOTOR OIL: 25.1400 -1.41%

JUMBO: 26.9800 -0.30%

PPA:44.9000 +2.51%

OPAP: 18.3000 +0.55%

OTE: 16.0000 +0.25%

PIRAEUS: 7.0800 -0.92%

SARANTIS: 12.6400 -2.77%