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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 12-07-10
CONTENTS
[01] Stocks end sharply lower
[02] Open-air film screenings in Thisseio district
[01] Stocks end sharply lower
AMNA / Stocks ended sharply lower in the Athens Stock Exchange on Tuesday
as investors took profits after the market's recent rally. Selling
focused on bank shares and the shares of Hellenic Telecoms and PPC which
had recorded big gains recently. The composite index of the market
fell 3.26 pct to end at 621.69 points, after rising as much as 1.42
pct early in the session. Turnover remained a low 31.983 million euros.
The Big Cap index dropped 4.28 pct and the Mid Cap index fell 3.91
pct. The Food (0.16 pct) sector was the only one to end higher, while
Telecoms (7.79 pct), Raw Materials (7.46 pct) and Banks (6.68 pct)
suffered the heaviest percentage losses of the day.
Coca Cola 3E (0.20 pct) was the only blue chip stock to end
higher. Broadly, decliners led advancers by 84 to 40 with another 20
issues unchanged. amna
[02] Open-air film screenings in Thisseio district
AMNA / The Association of Greek Archaeologists' (SEA) cinema unit, in
cooperation with the Greek Directors' Guild, will offer free open-air
film screenings to cinemagoers at the association's courtyard, in Athens'
Thisseio district, to the southwest of the Acropolis archaeological site.
Screenings at the outdoor cinema will be launched on Thursday with the
1988 film "Cinema Paradiso" and will continue for the duration of summer
through autumn, with Greek-language films every Tuesday and foreign
films on Thursdays. amna
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