The planetary swing from bonds to stocks appears to person benefited the Greek stock marketplace astatine a clip of geopolitical uncertainty connected galore fronts. This helped the benchmark of the section bourse ascent to a caller 13-year precocious connected Thursday, with buying involvement trickling down to little capitalizations too, expanding marketplace optimism. However, this is ever a fragile optimism that whitethorn well vanish when worries from overseas take hold.
The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) wide scale closed astatine 1,510.93 points, adding 0.30% to Wednesday’s 1,506.48 points. The large-cap FTSE-25 scale expanded 0.22%, ending astatine 3,680.90 points, and mid-caps climbed 1.25%.
The banks scale earned 0.69%, arsenic National collected 1.69%, Eurobank fetched 0.47% and Piraeus grabbed 0.36%, while Alpha gave up 0.23% and Optima eased 0.16%. ElvalHalcor jumped 3.23%, and Ellaktor dropped 2.20%.
In total 60 stocks registered gains, 39 suffered losses and 26 remained unchanged.
Turnover amounted to 144.6 cardinal euros, down from Wednesday’s €160.3 million.
In Nicosia, the wide scale of the Cyprus Stock Exchange accrued 0.41% to adjacent astatine 221.23 points.