Share prices ended strongly higher in today’s stock exchange session, with the market above the 870 mark, but in a low turnover environment.

The overall price index closed at 875.47, up 1.86%. This is the highest close since the June 9, 2022 session (886.64 points). The transaction value was EUR 39.14 million, with 18,109,575 shares sold.

Indices of European sites were moving up.

The large-cap index rose 1.88%, while the mid-cap index rose 1.82%.

Of the large-cap stocks, Piraeus (+6.24%), Viohalco (+5.11%), PPC (+4.87%), Ethniki (+3.10%), Lamda Development (+3, 05%) and Elvalhalcor (+3.04%).

On the contrary, the largest decline was recorded in the shares of Sarantis (-3.67%) and Ellaktor (-1.88%). Of the individual indices, Raw Materials (+3.77%), Utilities (+3.07%) and Banks (+2.88%) demonstrated the largest increase, while Health (-1.27%) %) and Insurance (-0.99%). %). The largest amount of transactions was presented by Alpha Bank with 5.403 million euros and Mytileneos with 4.588 million euros. European stocks rose yesterday, sharply recouping Tuesday’s losses thanks to the latest economic data, which showed that the US inflation index strengthened in July more slowly than expected. The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed yesterday’s session, which was the best in almost two weeks, rising by 0.89%. In London, the FTSE 100 closed down 0.25%, the DAX in Frankfurt 1.23%, the CAC 40 0.52% in Paris, the FTSE MIB 0.95% in Milan and the IBEX 0.49% in Madrid. The Dow Jones and S&P 500 also rose yesterday on the eve of the close in the US market, adding 1.45% and 1.87% respectively.