Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-01-28

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

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[01] Athens Airport 2009 results

[02] Stocks end moderately higher

[01] Athens Airport 2009 results

Official figures showed that passenger traffic fell 1.5 pct in 2009 to 16.2 million passengers, the second smallest percentage decline in Europe, where passenger traffic fell by 5.9 pct -- on average -- last year. However, the Athens Airport is the only European airport to report a 5.4-pct rise in the number of flights, to more than 210,000, when the European average records a -7.3 pct for the year.

The airport added nine new destinations last year and 13 new airline customers.

The domestic market recorded an historic record with 6.1 million passengers, up 5.2 pct from 2008, while international market fell 5.1 pct to 10.1 million passengers.

Passenger traffic showed concrete signs of recovery in the second half of the year, a trend continuing in the early weeks of 2010.

Yiannis Parashis, the airportâs general manager, expressed his satisfaction over the 2009 figures and said he was optimistic over this yearâs outlook.

[02] Stocks end moderately higher

The FTSE 20 index rose 0.71 pct, the FTSE 40 index ended 0.06 pct up and the FTSE 80 index fell 0.15 pct. The Financial Services (2.75 pct) and Oil (2.18 pct) sectors scored the biggest percentage gains of the day, while Raw Materials (2.15 pct) and Industrial Products (1.60 pct) suffered losses.

Klonatex (14.29 pct), Compucon (11.11 pct), Vovos (10.93 pct), Shelman (10.0 pct) and Texapret (9.09 pct) were top gainers, while United Textiles (14.29 pct), Kekrops (9.79 pct), VIS (9.63 pct) and Nutriart (9.52 pct) were top losers.

Broadly, decliners led advancers by 101 to 70 with another 57 issues unchanged.

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