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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-02-18
CONTENTS
[01] Tsipras with Spanish left leaders
[02] Stocks rebound strongly on Thurs.
[01] Tsipras with Spanish left leaders
Visiting Madrid on Thursday, Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA)
Parliamentary group leader Alexis Tsipras said that the forces of the
left in southern Europe were at the start of a difficult but very
important effort to "prevent the forces of capital from eroding the
social gains that had been won in past decades through struggles and
sacrifices".
Communist Party of Spain SG Jose Luis Centella, in a statement after
his meeting with Tsipras, said he was certain that the two parties
would fight together so that the working class would not have to pay
for the crisis.
The head of Spain's United Left political coalition, Cayo Lara, also
appeared sanguine that the parties of the left will continue to work
together to resist the crisis.
[02] Stocks rebound strongly on Thurs.
Stocks recovered at the Athens Stock Exchange on Thursday, with the
composite index of the market rising 1.27 pct to end at 1,882.10
points, in line with a positive trend in other European markets.
Turnover was a low 136.4 million euros.
The FTSE 20 index jumped 1.58 pct, the FTSE 40 index ended 0.15 pct
down and the FTSE 80 index rose 0.93 pct. The Chemicals (8.68 pct) and
Telecoms (4.49 pct) sectors scored the biggest percentage gains of the
day, while Insurance (0.86 pct) and Personal Products (0.81 pct)
suffered losses.
Thrace Plastics (17.72 pct), Aspis Bank (10.26 pct), Nakas (10 pct) and
Nutriart (9.09 pct) were top gainers, while Klonatex (14.29 pct),
Hellenic Fish Farming (8.33 pct) and Lamda Development (6.53 pct) were
top losers. Broadly, advancers led decliners by 98 to 56 with another
72 issues unchanged.
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