ATHEX: Bourse enjoys its best week in four years

The stock market braved its early losses and the drops on most other European bourses to revert to gains by the closing bell on Friday and see its benchmark register monthly gains of 7.37 percent in May. Public Power Corporation and banks led the price rebound, with turnover topping 150 million euros, as the positive momentum that started last Monday continued.

The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index closed at a new 12-month high of 830.24 points, adding 1.46 percent to Thursday's 818.33 points. On a weekly basis it earned 13.42 percent, for its best week since the capital controls were introduced in June 2015.

The large-cap FTSE-25 index expanded 1.04 percent to end at 2,116.09 points, and the banks index climbed 3.52 percent. PPC jumped 8.68 percent, National improved 6.47 percent, Alpha rose 5.63 percent and ADMIE Holdings grew 3.89 percent, as Piraeus Port...

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