After last weeks’ remarkable successive rises, the CSE general index – mostly pressured by the banking sector that fell 4.58 per cent - ended up the session with losses of 4,07 per cent, reaching 107.6 points. Similarly, FTSE20/CySE20 closed 4.71 per cent lower at 413.52 points. It is worth mentioning the fact that at the opening of the session the CSE index reached 118 points and +5 per cent.

The Bank of Cyprus was the most marketable stock of the day, falling 5.5 per cent to CYP 1.55. The Bank of Cyprus warrants with 19.32 per cent of the total trading volume reported 3.4 per cent losses and closed at 57 cents, while the Popular Bank with 8.3 per cent of the daily turnover edged 2.2 per cent lower to CYP 1.32. The other volume leaders of the day were the Hellenic Bank (5.1 per cent of the total volume) and CRL Investment (4.1 per cent of the turnover) that went 4.6 and 10.4 per cent down to 84 and 12.1 cents respectively.

On the other hand, Astra Self Drive Cars of the “Other companies” sector with 0.23 per cent of the trading volume scrambled up 25.8 per cent to 22.4 cents, CLLw with 0.58 per cent of the turnover soared 11.8 per cent to 1.9 cents, while Agros “Proodos” with 1.37 per cent of the total volume rose 8.43 per cent to 90 cents.

The financial sector enjoyed once again small gains of 1.3 per cent. Specifically, CLR Financial Services (0.8 per cent of the turnover) surged 10.1 per cent to 30.5 cents, while Laiki Investments (0.78 of the total trading volume) ended 2 per cent higher to 20.4 cents. The other companies of the financial sector accumulated losses.

Global Consolidator – during the first day of trading under normal regime – with 0.24 per cent of the total volume recorded losses of 2.63 per cent closing at 11.1 cents.

Overall, 45 securities went up, 94 fell and 10 remained unchanged.