The selective moves by traders at the Greek stock market dominated Friday’s bourse session and gave buyers a slight edge to offer the benchmark moderate gains at the end of a busy week. The record highs posted in Wall Street on Thursday and the prospect of a possible peace deal between the US and Iran gave a boost to local stocks in the last couple of hours of the session, including the closing auctions.
The Euronext Athens (ATHEX) general index closed at 2,271.72 points, adding 0.25% to Thursday’s 2,266.09 points. On a weekly basis it advanced 1.11%.
The large-cap FTSE-25 index expanded 0.13%, ending at 5,759.99 points and the banks index advanced 0.29%, as Bank of Cyprus earned 1.17%, National augmented 0.96%, Alpha collected 0.31% and Piraeus grabbed 0.21%, while Eurobank parted with 0.70% and Optima gave up 0.38%. Public Power Corporation declined 3.56%.
In total 72 stocks obtained gains, 38 suffered losses and 15 remained unchanged.
Turnover amounted to €272.4 million, down from Thursday’s €703 million.
