Athens News Agency: News in English, 02-12-31

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

CONTENTS

[01] ASE closing (recasts)

[02] Greek stocks end 2002 with a net loss of 32.53 percent

[01] ASE closing (recasts)

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks rose 0.14 percent to end the year at 863.90 points, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index rose 0.54 percent to end at 187.51 points and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index jumped 1.07 percent to end at 464.49 points.

Sector indices ended as follows:

Banks:2,688.23 +0.69%

Telecommunications:816.81 0.72%

Insurance:517.70 +0.17%

Investment:543.12 +1.36%

Construction:946.98 +1.27%

Textile:394.80 +1.08%

Industrials:1.014.72 +0.26%

Holding:1.054.57 +0.29%

Base Metals:425.99 +1.32%

Minerals:789.22 +1.20%

Publications:234.03 +0.98%

Retail:535.16 1.31%

IT:472.10 +0.78%

IT Solutions:192.78 +1.27%

Wholesale:380.51 +0.44%

Food-Beverage:437.86 0.06%

The parallel market index for smaller capitalisation stocks ended at 149.30, up 0.29%

Refineries:917.66 +1.05%

Real Estate:819.45 +1.49%

Xifias (12%), Papafilis (11.86%), Alysida (11.63%), Infoquest (10.64%) and Allatini (9.92%) scored the biggest percentage gains of the day, while Elfico (11.52%), Plaisio (10.84%), Technodomi (9.09%), Eltrak (8.79%) and Giannousis (7.29%) suffered the heaviest losses.

Sex Form, Balkan Export, Themeliodomi, Atermon and Naoussa Spinning were the most heavily traded stocks.

At the end of the year, the Greek bourse's capitalisation totalled 66.327 billion euros.

Share prices in the MSCI index ended as follows:

Álpha Bank: 11.50

Coca Cola: 13.24

Eurobank: 11.20

Panafon: 5.52

Aluminium of Greece:17.62

Viohalco: 3.78

Public Power Corporation: 13.20

National Bank: 13.50

Hellenic Petroleum: 5.54

Hellenic Technodomiki: 5.90

Commercial Bank: 14.50

Attica Enterprises: 2.47

Athens Water: 3.62

Intracom: 4.26

Duty Free Shops: 6.06

Maillis: 4.02

Hellenic Telecoms: 10.50

Olympic Technical: 3.26

Piraeus Bank: 6.02

Titan Cement: 36.46

Ìotor Oil: 6.90

Folli-Follie:16.12

[02] Greek stocks end 2002 with a net loss of 32.53 percent

Greek stocks ended flat the last trading session of a dismal year, with the general index recording annual losses of 32.53 percent - the second biggest annual loss in the last 15 years.

A total of 336 listed shares recorded losses ranging from one to 83 percent during 2002, while 27 shares recorded gains between 0.37 percent to 67 percent with only one share unchanged during the year.

The general index ended at 1,748.42 points unchanged from Monday's close, with turnover a low 54.6 million euros.

The Retail, Telecommunications and Food-Beverage sectors recorded the heaviest percentage losses of the day (1.31 percent, 0.72 percent and 0.06 percent, respectively), while the Investment, Base Metal and IT Solutions sectors scored the biggest gains (1.36 percent, 1.32 percent and 1.27 percent).

Broadly, advancers led decliners by 200 to 105 with another 52 issues unchanged.

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