Greek stocks ended the first trading session of the week higher in the Athens Stock Exchange with sentiment encouraged by a positive trend in other European markets. Buying interest focused on banks and telecommunication stocks.
The general index rose 0.84 percent to end at 2,1235.27 points, with turnover a moderate 98.4 million euros.
The Cement and Food-Beverage sectors were the only ones to suffer losses (1.32 percent and 0.53 percent, respectively), while the Base Metals (2.35 percent), Construction (1.89 percent) and Publications (1.80 percent) scored the biggest percentage gains of the day.
The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks rose 0.88 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index ended 0.66 percent higher and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index rose 1.16 percent.
Broadly, advancers led decliners by 200 to 94 with another 57 issues unchanged.