ATHEX: April ends with a 0.77% index rise

The pendulum astatine the Greek stock marketplace swung toward losses connected Wednesday, arsenic traders factored successful the antagonistic GDP information successful the US. However non-bank bluish chips astatine Athinon Avenue resisted the unit and ensured that the driblet of the scale would not beryllium such that it would wipe retired each of the month’s gains. Therefore the benchmark ended April with a 0.77% emergence to marque it the sixth period successful a enactment with maturation for the section bourse.

The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) wide scale closed astatine 1,698.19 points, shedding 0.67% from Tuesday’s 1,709.63 points. The large-cap FTSE-25 scale contracted 0.92%, ending astatine 4,198.94 points.

The banks scale suffered a 1.96% drop, arsenic Alpha fell 2.30%, Piraeus gave up 2.25%, National shrank 2.19% and Eurobank parted with 1.66%. Ellaktor slumped 3.43% and ElvalHalcor declined 3%, though Coca-Cola HBC grew 2.12% and Sarantis precocious 1.81%.

In total 32 stocks reported gains, 77 sustained losses and 19 remained unchanged.

Turnover amounted to 189.6 cardinal euros, up from Tuesday’s €148.6 million.

In Nicosia the wide scale of the Cyprus Stock Exchange accrued 0.34% to adjacent astatine 234.94 points.