ATHEX: Turnover at lowest level this year

Wednesday’s bourse league astatine Athinon Avenue confirmed that the section stock marketplace has mislaid its momentum owed to the war successful the Middle East, and traders are not willing to take immoderate risks present fixed the volatility of markets and the geopolitical uncertainty. Most indexes and stocks headed lower, and lone mid-caps notched insignificant gains. The benchmark narrowly managed to sustain the 2,200-point level, while regular turnover dropped to its lowest constituent successful 2026.

The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) wide scale closed astatine 2,200.69 points, shedding 0.11% from Tuesday’s 2,203.09 points. The large-cap FTSE-25 scale contracted 0.13%, ending astatine 5,578.33 points, though mid-caps expanded 0.10%.

The banks scale conceded 0.23%, arsenic Alpha fell 1.97%, Eurobank slid 0.13% and National slipped 0.07%, while Optima grew 0.67%, Bank of Cyprus precocious 0.60% and Piraeus collected 0.12%.

In total 48 stocks obtained gains, 58 showed losses and 16 remained unchanged.

Turnover amounted to €169.3 million, down from Tuesday’s €203.3 million.

In Nicosia, the wide scale of the Cyprus Stock Exchange decreased 0.27% to adjacent astatine 284.32 points.