Athens News Agency: News in English, 03-04-16

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

CONTENTS

[01] Foreign Exchange Rates - Thursday

[02] Weather Forecast: Cloudy on Thursday

[03] Cyprus govt spokesman hopes EU accession will assist Cyprus problem

[04] Greek stocks end lower on Wednesday

[01] Foreign Exchange Rates - Thursday

Reference buying rates per euro released by the European Central Bank

U.S. dollar 1.092

Pound sterling 0.693

Danish kroner 7.484

Swedish kroner 9.230

Japanese yen 131.4

Swiss franc 1.514

Norwegian kroner 7.901

Cyprus pound 0.591

Canadian dollar 1.580

Australian dollar 1.786

[02] Weather Forecast: Cloudy on Thursday

Cloudy weather is forecast in all parts of the country, with rain or storms likely in the southern Ionian, the Peloponnese, the Cyclades and Crete. Winds variable, light to moderate to very strong, turning gale force in parts of the Aegean. In the north, temperatures will range from 7C to 18C; on the rest of the mainland and in the Ionian from 9C to 21C; and in the Aegean islands from 12C to 18C. Temperatures in Athens between 11C and 19C; and in Thessaloniki from 7C to 18C.

[03] Cyprus govt spokesman hopes EU accession will assist Cyprus problem

The European Unions enlargement and the signing of the Accession Treaty by Cyprus is undoubtedly a major success of the Greek EU Presidency, Cyprus government spokesman Kipros Chrisostomidis told the ANA on Wednesday.

The spokesman added the fact that the ?official? Turkey was absent from the Accession Treaty singing, was aimed at harming Cyprus.

?Whether they (Turkey) want it or not, Cyprus is officially entering the EU as a member-state and this may give shape to the framework for carrying on efforts to achieve a solution to the Cyprus problem, a solution that would be to the benefit of both Turkish-Cypriots and Greek-Cypriots,? Chrisostomidis noted.

Chrisostomidis, is currently in Athens in the context of the signing of the EU Accession Treaties by ten candidate members-states, which are to fully join the Union on May 1, 2004 with Cyprus being among the ten.

[04] Greek stocks end lower on Wednesday

Greek stocks ended Wednesday's session lower, succumbing to profit-taking selling, after volatile trading in the Athens Stock Exchange.

The general index fell 0.40 percent to end at 1,622.54 points, with turnover a low 105.75 million euros.

The Telecommunications sector was the only one to score gains (up 0.41 percent), while the Textile (7.75 percent), IT Solutions (5.14 percent), Wholesale (3.26 percent), Publications (3.04 percent) and Insurance (2.94 percent), sectors suffered the heaviest percentage losses of the day.

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks fell 0.08 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index ended 1.60 percent lower, the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index dropped 2.58 percent and the wider FTSE/ASE 140 index fell 1.60 percent.

Broadly, decliners led advancers by 282 to 48 with another 27 issues unchanged.

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