With a gentle fall were finally closed stock prices in today’s session, as large initial losses pared significantly towards the close of the market, then the positive opening of Wall Street. Initially the pressure was intense with the market recording a decline approaching 3%, amid strong bearish movement and European markets in the wake of developments triggered by the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank. The banking index closed on positive territory, with the share of National Bank registering high profits.

The General Price Index closed at 1,049.55 units, noting down 0.64%. Intra-sessionally it recorded a lower price at 1,025.17 points (-2.94%).

The value of transactions amounted to 152.62 million euros, while 65,113,121 shares were traded.

The large-cap index fell 0.63%, while the mid-cap index fell 0.69%.

Of the high capitalization shares, the shares of Sarantis (+4.32%), Ethniki (+3.73%), Piraeus (+0.71%) and Jumbo (+0.67%) recorded an increase . On the contrary, the biggest drop was recorded by the shares of Mytileneos (-2.98%), Viohalco (-2.96%), OPAP (-21.05) and OTE (-1.93%).

Of the individual indices, the largest increase was recorded by the indices of Financial Services (+1.78%) and Banks (+0.97%), while the largest losses were recorded by the indices of Health (-2.90%), of Industrial Products (-2.74%) and Raw Materials (-2.22%).

The largest volume of transactions was presented by Alpha Bank and Piraeus, trading 21,293,171 and 9,761,431 shares, respectively.

The highest value of transactions was recorded by National Bank with 26.61 million euros and Alpha Bank with 24.94 million euros.

26 stocks moved up, 87 down and 16 remained stable.

The biggest increase was recorded by the shares: KREKA +11.11% and Vioter +10.71%. The biggest drop was registered by the shares: Tria Alpha (p) -10.00% and Attica Bank -9.99%.

The stocks in the large cap index closed as follows:

TITAN: 14.0800 -1.26%

ADMIE: 1.8140 -0.98%

ALPHA BANK: 1.1995 -0.04%

AEGEAN AIRLINES: 7.0900 -1.25%

VIOHALCO: 4.2600 -2.96%

GEK TERNA: 11.2000 -1.75%

PPC: 7.0400 -1.24%

COCA COLA HBC: 23.8600 -1.00%

ELLAKTOR: 1.9580 -0.71%

ELPE: 7.7200 -1.03%

ELVALHALCOR: 1.6920 -1.63%

NATIONAL: 4.7330 +3.73%

EYDAP: 6.6600 -1.19%

EUROBANK: 1.2965 -0.27%

QUEST PARTICIPATION: 5.0000 unchanged

LAMDA DEVELOPMENT: 5.9000 -1.42%

MOTOR OIL: 23.3200 -1.52%

JUMBO: 21.1400 +0.67%

MYTILINEOS: 23.4600 -2.98%

PPA: 18.2400 -0.76%

OPAP: 14.4200 -2.10%

OTE: 13.2200 -1.93%

PIRAEUS: 1.9980 +0.71%

SARANTIS: 7.0000 +4.32%

TERNA ENERGY: 18.3200 -0.92%