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Greek stocks fall for second consecutive session

10/07/2003 17:01
Greek stocks remained under pressure for the second consecutive session to end lower, although not far away from the critical 2,000-point level, in the Athens Stock Exchange on Thursday.

Traders said that a negative climate in other European bourses affected sentiment in the Greek market.

The general index fell 0.30 percent to end at 1,990,98 points, with turnover a moderate 161.3 million euros.

The IT Solutions, Retail and Investment sectors scored the biggest percentage gains of the day (5.98 percent, 0.99 percent and 0.88 percent, respectively), while the Publication (3.11 percent), Industrial (1.02 percent) and Construction (0.85 percent) sectors suffered the heaviest percentage losses.

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks fell 0.08 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index ended 0.98 percent lower and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index rose 0.12 percent.
Broadly, advancers led decliners by 167 to 154 with another 43 issues unchanged.