Greek stocks end off lows on Wednesday
Greek stocks end off lows on Wednesday
19/11/2003 16:59
Greek stocks eased slightly on Wednesday as a wave of technical buying, particularly in blue chip stocks, in the last hour of trading helped prices recovery from their day's lows in teh Athens Stock Exchange.

The general index ended 0.04 percent lower at 2,130.53 points, after hitting an intra-day low of 2,104.73 points, early in the session.

Turnover was a heavy 138.6 million euros.

The Textile and Retail sectors suffered the heaviest percentage losses of the day (2.28 percent and 1.50 percent, respectively), while the Holding and Cement sectors scored the biggest percentage gains (0.44 percent and 0.35 percent, respectively).

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks rose 0.01 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index fell 0.50 percent and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index eased 0.40 percent.

Broadly, decliners led advancers by 220 to 91 with another 47 issues unchanged.

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