Athens Stock Exchange

Political uncertainty is significantly affecting the course of the Greek stock market but things will stabilize after the general elections, Greece's Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis said on Friday. Addressing a special ceremony held in the Athens Stock Exchange to mark...

Equity prices were falling on Monday on the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE), with the basic share price index down 10.90 percent, standing at 760.24 points at 12:45 am after the failure of the current Parliament to elect a Greek...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker made the controversial statement on Thursday that Greece should avoid electing "extremist forces" into power, according to EUobserver. Juncker was participating in a debate with EUobserver and other Brussels-based journalists for Austrian public television. Commenting...

New dramatic free fall recorded the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE), which sank to a new year low, amid the worsening climate in the markets due to political uncertainty, while the Greek 10-year bond recorded a worrying increase over 9%. The...

The nightmarish Grexit scenarios of 2010 and 2011 are back, after the recent political turmoil in Greece, said Bloomberg. As international investors analyze the options, they see that Greece's status in the Eurozone is in question again. The 12.78-point record plunge...

In the maelstrom of political uncertainty - after the announcement of the acceleration of the Presidential election - moved today the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE), as concerns regarding the country's political developments seem to affect Greek banks. The main index lost...

Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) General Index closed at 910.50 points on Friday with a 5.38% drop, or 51.81 points lower than the previous closing, while turnover was 101 million euros. The drop is estimated due to the climate created after...

For a second day in a row, Greek stocks and state bonds remain under heavy pressure. Starting yesterday and hit by a wave of selling foreign investors, the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) index fell more than 7%, significantly below the 900-point...

Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) General Index closed at 948.21 points on Tuesday, a 5.70% drop, marking the ASE's worst trading day since June 2013. The drop is estimated due to the negative climate created in the international market, as well as the concerns...

“Among the best-performing Europe gauges in 2013 after the government carried out the world’s biggest-ever debt restructuring, Greece’s ASE Index has become one of the worst,” Bloomberg reports. The stock market is slumping 21% as lenders from Piraeus Bank...