ATHEX: Mid-cap index keeps bourse in the black

Wednesday’s mixed league astatine the Greek bourse had mid-caps keeping the benchmark successful the black, conscionable arsenic banks and the blue-chip scale closed the time successful the red. Traders proceed to look reserved, with highly targeted moves, some successful income and successful purchases.

The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) wide scale closed astatine 2,267.45 points, adding 0.05% to Tuesday’s 2,266.42 points. The large-cap FTSE-25 scale contracted 0.03%, ending astatine 5,751.37 points, though mid-caps expanded 1.34%.

The banks scale declined 0.95%, with Eurobank falling 2.53%, National easing 1.37%, Piraeus giving up 0.28% and Bank of Cyprus shedding 0.21%, while Optima roseate 2.01% and Alpha roseate 0.03%.

The reshuffle of the MSCI indexes had GEK Terna upgrading from the MSCI Small Cap scale to the MSCI Greece Standard Index, and mislaid 1.59% connected Wednesday. On the different hand, Metlen outperformed, rising 5.62%.

In total 69 stocks obtained gains, 44 showed losses and 12 remained unchanged.

Turnover amounted to €254.4 million, down from Tuesday’s €286.9 million.

In Nicosia, the wide scale of the Cyprus Stock Exchange decreased 0.19% to 291.04 points.