ATHEX: Bourse shies from its highs on Thursday

The roller coaster that is the situation successful the Middle East took different crisp turn connected Friday morning, sending bourses little and lipid rates higher erstwhile again. This gave investors astatine the Greek stock marketplace the cleanable excuse to currency successful connected some of their caller gains, adjacent if the firm results that companies, such arsenic OTE and National Bank, study for the year’s archetypal 4th would beryllium an excuse for much purchases.

The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) wide scale closed astatine 2,280.09 points, shedding 1.11% from Thursday’s 2,305.74 points. On a weekly ground it precocious 4.18%.

The large-cap FTSE-25 scale contracted 1.24%, ending astatine 5,788.17 points, though mid-caps expanded 0.04%.

The banks scale declined 0.51%, arsenic Alpha fell 2.99%, Piraeus dropped 1.59% and Bank of Cyprus conceded 1.56%, while Eurobank roseate 1.53% and National collected 0.25%. Helleniq Energy shrank 4.31% and Allwyn eased 4.05%.

In total 36 stocks registered gains, 70 suffered losses and 17 remained unchanged.

Turnover amounted to €300.8 million, down from Thursday’s €325.4 million.

In Nicosia, the wide scale of the Cyprus Stock Exchange accrued 0.07% to 294.58 points.