Stocks flat on Thursday

Stocks prices mostly stabilised at the Athens Stock Exchange on Thursday, with the market posting a marginal gain of 0.08 pct on the omposite index to end at 1,401.16 points. Turnover was a low 92.05 million euros, of which 24.73 million involved a package of Piraeus Bank shares purchased by a foreign fund — 23,574,826 shares at 1.05 euros. The Big Cap index was up a negligible 0.03 pct, the Mid Cap index ended 0.65 pct up and the Small Cap index posted gains of 0.78 pct. Utilities (3.37 pct) and Health (0.38 pct) were the only sectors posted the biggest gains, while Foodstuffs (2.25 pct) and Insurances (1.69 pct) suffered the heaviest percentage losses of the day.
Broadly, decliners led advancers by 73 to 74 with another 46 issues unchanged.

Sector indices ended as follows:

Insurance:  -1.69%
Industrials:  -0.96%
Commercial:  -1.07%
Construction:  +0.08%
Media:  -0.34%
Oil & Gas:  +0.64%
Personal & Household:  +0.61%
Raw Materials:  +1.19%
Travel & Leisure:  -1.33%
Technology:  +0.07%
Telecoms:  -0.51%
Banks:  +0.68%
Food & Beverages:  -2.25%
Health:  +2.30%
Utilities:  +3.37%
Chemicals:  -0.38%
Financial Services:  +1.51%

The stocks with the highest turnover were Piraeus Bank, National Bank, OPAP and Alpha Bank.

Selected shares from the FTSE/ASE-20 index closed in euros as follows:
Alpha Bank:  3.68
ATEbank:  0.44
Public Power Corp (PPC):  11.16
HBC Coca Cola:  18.35
Hellenic Petroleum:  7.14
National Bank of Greece:  5.03
EFG Eurobank Ergasias:  3.43
OPAP:  14.41
OTE:  7.83
Bank of Piraeus:  1.05
Titan:  17.98