Socrates Lazaridis

Greek bourse and others buy 44 pct of Kuwait stock exchange

Published by Kathimerini on Mon, 02/18/2019 - 19:10

A consortium led by Kuwait's National Investment Co and including the Athens bourse won a tender to acquire 44 percent of the Kuwait stock exchange.

"There are plans by the Kuwait exchange for an IPO at a later stage to sell 50 percent and get listed," Socrates Lazaridis, CEO at Hellenic Exchanges, told Reuters last Thursday.

Foreign investors keep upper hand at bourse

Published by Kathimerini on Wed, 02/13/2019 - 18:38

Foreign investors accounted for more than half of total trading activity on Greece's stock market last year, executives at stock and futures operator Hellenic Exchanges said on Wednesday.

Greek equities fell 23.6 percent in 2018, a tough year in which banks took a beating. But mid-cap shares bucked the downtrend for a second straight year.