Greek stocks ease on Thursday
Greek stocks ease on Thursday
16/10/2003 17:23
Greek stocks eased slightly on Thursday in the Athens Stock Exchange with the market suffering from lack of fresh news and incentives.

The general index ended 0.34 percent lower at 2,111.24 points, with trade focusing in blue chip stocks like Hellenic Telecoms, Panafon, National Bank, Alpha Bank, EFG Eurobank Ergasias and Emporiki Bank. Turnover was a dissapointing low 97.7 million euros.

The Telecommunications and Investment sectors were the only ones to score gains (0.25 percent and 0.17 percent, respectively), while the Textile, Publication and Food-Beverage sectors suffered the heaviest percentage losses of the day (1.68 percent, 1.22 percent and 1.21 percent, respectively).

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks eased 0.19 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index fell 0.53 percent and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index ended 0.46 percent down.

Broadly, decliners led advancers by 225 to 82 with another 51 issues unchanged.

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