Stock exchange

Greek-owned Belgium-based Cenergy Holdings began trading on the Euronext Brussels market (Compartment C) and Athens Stock Exchange on Wednesday.

With an initial reference price set at 0.61 euros per share, Cenergy Holdings had a total market capitalization of 116 million euros.

Gažić noted that the considerable interest from investors despite worrying trends on the capital markets made the event satisfying.

Equity prices were dropping again on Thursday on the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) for fourth day in a row with the basic share price index down 5.11%, standing at 426 points.

The heaviest losses were recorded in banks, financial services  and constructions.

The stock market is moving today focusing on Eurogroup decisions and foreign stock markets.

There is great concern among the investors and analysts who talk about a second financial crisis like the one of 2008, after Chinese stock markets shutting down for a second time within a week.

About 2.5 trillion dollars are estimated to have been lost in 2016 (until yesterday) from global equity markets without counting the current fall.

Trading on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges was ended early on Jan. 4 after shares fell 7 percent, the first time China's new "circuit breaker" intervened to curb market volatility.

Greek Capital Market Commission’s new president Haralambos Gotsis on Monday announced the lifting of all capital controls in stock market transactions.

Speaking to reporters, Gotsis said a ministerial decisions has already been signed and will be put in force immediately.

The President of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, Konstantinos Botopoulos told Reuters that the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) will open on Wednesday or Thursday after being shut down since June 29, when bank holidays and capital controls were imposed on Greek banks.

The Capital Market Commission is expected to announce in the early hours of Monday the closure of the Greek stock exchange for at least a week, as financial activity in the country grinds to a halt.

The Government will continue restructuring the state-owned companies and reviewing its portfolio, to decide which of them could be listed on the stock exchange, Treasury head Stefan Nanu said in a conference organized by the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Tuesday.

Developing Borsa Istanbul is an important component of building the Istanbul financial hub, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Director for Turkey Jean-Patrick Marquet told Anadolu Agency in an interview on June 5.