Share prices closed strongly higher yesterday’s session of the Athens Stock Exchange, with the market closing at 1,120 units, with banking stocks at the center of investment interest.

The market moved higher and with an increase in turnover for the eleventh session in a row, during which the main stock market index recorded an overall increase of 9.46%.

The general price index closed at 1120.29 points, up 1.59%. Intra-session, he fixed a higher price at the level of 1122.88 units (+1.82%).

The transaction value was EUR 134.74 million, with 54,941,144 shares sold.

The large-cap index rose 1.70%, while the mid-cap index rose 0.77%.

Among large-cap stocks, Piraeus (+6.10%), Eurobank (+4.82%), Viohalco (+3.58%), Alpha Bank (+3.39%) and Aegean Airlines (+3 .24%).

The market moved up and with an increase in turnover for the eleventh session in a row, recording an overall increase of 9.46%.

On the contrary, Motor Oil (-1.96%), Ellactor (-1.64%) and Mytileneos (-1.21%) recorded the largest decline.

Of the individual indices, banks (+4.04%) and travel (+1.79%) showed the largest growth, while the biggest losses were health (-2.38%) and oil (-1.08%).

The largest volume of transactions was represented by Alfa Bank and MIG, trading 14,768,665 and 11,119,726 shares, respectively.

Piraeus recorded the largest amount of transactions with 18.25 million euros and Alpha Bank with 17.86 million euros.

62 stocks rose, 35 fell and 29 remained stable.

Shares recorded the highest growth: Piraeus +6.10% and Eurobank +4.82%.

The largest drop was registered in shares: Viator -4.96% and Intertek -4.17%.