ATHEX: Measured profit-taking on bourse

The bourse successful Athens came disconnected the historical highs recorded connected erstwhile days connected Thursday, with investors showing a wide volition for profit-taking, though this proved targeted and alternatively mean connected the day. This means that – barring immoderate unforeseeable developments connected the planetary economical country – the maturation momentum is to beryllium maintained and extended implicit the coming days astatine least.

The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) wide scale closed astatine 1,859.13 points, shedding 0.92% from Wednesday’s 1,876.42 points. The large-cap FTSE-25 scale contracted 1.11%, ending astatine 4,661.13 points.

The banks scale declined 0.72%, arsenic Eurobank dropped 1.79%, Optima fell 1.60%, Alpha gave up 1.01%, Piraeus slipped 0.13% and National stayed put.

OPAP shrank 3.38%, Titan Cement parted with 3.11%, Coca-Cola HBC mislaid 2.67% and Metlen fell 2.38%, while ElvalHalcor precocious 2.60%.

In total 49 stocks reported gains, 52 sustained losses and 22 remained unchanged.

Turnover amounted to €199.5 million, down from Wednesday’s €445.9 million.

In Nicosia the wide scale of the Cyprus Stock Exchange decreased 1.18% to 247.20 points.