Athens News Agency: News in English, 03-10-27

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

CONTENTS

[01] Foreign Exchange Rates: Ôuesday

[02] Weather Forecast: Mixed on Tuesday

[03] Successful PPC flotation leads ASE higher on Monday

[01] Foreign Exchange Rates: Ôuesday

Reference buying rates per euro released by the European Central Bank

U.S. dollar 1.184

Pound sterling 0.699

Danish kroner 7.490

Swedish kroner 9.143

Japanese yen 128.3

Swiss franc 1.560

Norwegian kroner 8.316

Cyprus pound 0.588

Canadian dollar 1.549

Australian dollar 1.682

[02] Weather Forecast: Mixed on Tuesday

The east, Cyclades and northern Crete will see scattered cloud and showers. Rain will fall in the eastern Aegean and Dodecanese islands, soon easing off. The rest of the country will be mostly sunny. Winds northerly, moderate to strong. In the north, temperatures will range from 3C to 12C; in the west from 7C to 16C; and in the rest of the country from 10C to 17C. Temperatures in Athens between 10C and 17C; and in Thessaloniki from 5C to 12C.

[03] Successful PPC flotation leads ASE higher on Monday

Greek stocks ended Monday's session higher helped by strong buying interest in Public Power Corporation's shares after the news of a very successful flotation of a 17.5 percent equity stake in the company.

The general index rose 0.50 percent to end at 2,112.53 points, with turnover a disappointing low 82.8 million euros.

The Mineral-Cement, Investment and Bank sectors scored the biggest percentage gains of the day (1.40 percent, 0.76 percent and 0.76 percent, respectively), while the IT, Base Metal and IT Solution sectors suffered the heaviest percentage losses (1.58 percent, 0.59 percent and 0.44 percent, respectively).

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks rose 0.63 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index ended 0.15 percent higher and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index eased 0.20 percent.

Broadly, decliners led advancers by 146 to 144 with another 64 issues unchanged.

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