Athens News Agency: News in English, 03-03-24

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Weather Forecast: Fine but cold on Tuesday, some snow

[02] Greek stocks fall 1.35 pct on renewed war fears

[01] Weather Forecast: Fine but cold on Tuesday, some snow

The cold front sweeping across Greece is expected to be confined to the south and east by Tuesday, with local cloud and some snow or sleet forecast for northern Crete and the Cyclades islands and sunny weather for the rest of the country. Winds will be northerly, moderate to strong, in the west, very strong to gale force in the east and even stronger in the southeast Aegean. Temperatures will range from -6C to 13 C in the north, -3C to 18 C in the west, and -2C to 14 C in the rest of the country. Local cloud forecast for Athens early in the day with temperatures ranging between 3C and 12C. Fine in Thessaloniki, with temperatures between -2C and 12C.

[02] Greek stocks fall 1.35 pct on renewed war fears

Greek stocks fell on Monday following a reversal of last week's rally in international markets as fears of a prolonged war in Iraq depressed sentiment.

The general index ended 1.35 percent lower at 1,549.21 points, with turnover an extremely low of 39.8 million euros.

All sector indices ended lower, with the IT Solutions, Publications, Wholesale, Holding, Construction and Textile sectors suffering the heaviest percentage losses of the day (3.54 percent, 3.49 percent, 2.73 percent, 2.71 percent, 2.62 percent and 2.42 percent, respectively).

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks fell 1.33 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index ended 1.41 percent lower, the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index dropped 2.30 percent and the FTSE/ASE 140 index ended 1.44 percent lower.

Broadly, decliners led advancers by 270 to 57 with another 27 issues unchanged.

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