Short, quiet Easter week
The Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) composite share price index closed last Thursday at 4,199.11 points, a gain of 10.41 points or 0.25 percent on the previous week’s close. Only three sessions took place last week, due to the Easter holidays. The market reopens today. Turnover declined to 756.10 million euros, an average of 252.03 million euros per session, from 341.74 million the previous week. All major indices gained ground, with the exception of blue chips: The FTSE/Athex 20 index of blue chips declined 0.23 percent to close at 2,270.05 points, the FTSE/Athex Mid-40 gained 1.37 percent to close at 4,560.56 points, and the FTSE/Athex Small-Cap 80 gained 0.35 percent. The composite FTSE/Athex 140 index gained 0.03 percent to close at 5,008.77 points, while the FTSE/Athex International index gained 0.22 percent to close at 5,858.77 points. Thirteen of the 17 sectoral indices posted gains. The exceptions were travel and leisure (down 2.69 percent), health (1.29 percent), telecommunications (0.71 percent) and insurance (0.42 percent). Top gainers were oil and gas (up 3.17 percent), food and beverages (2.62 percent) and technology (2.26 percent). Among individual titles, the top gainers were Mouzakis (40.24 percent), Proodeftiki (30 percent) and Delta Project (26.22 percent). The top losers were Euroholdings (13.04 percent), Viosol’s preferred shares (13.04 percent) and Vis (10.71 percent). OPAP topped the list of the most heavily traded shares, with an average turnover of 34.95 million euros per session. It was trailed by National Bank (34.48 million), Alpha Bank (17.30 million) and Bank of Cyprus (14.78 million).
