The Athens Stock Exchange reached new 14-year highs today (9/1), while buyers managed to continue the upward movement of 2025.

Bank shares maintained their momentum and provided significant support, enabling the Greek market to overcome the morning volatility and close at 1,510 points for the first time since April 2011.

Somehow, Athens' cumulative change in the new year came in at +2.7%, driven by attractive valuations and upbeat valuations and ignoring the pervasive volatility abroad, where investors face a number of challenges.

Specifically, in the third session of the current week, the General Index posted a new increase of +0.30 to stand at 1,510.93 points, gaining about 4.5 points compared to Wednesday's close (1,506.48 points).

The arc of daily fluctuations was fixed at 11 points (from 1,500.21 to 1,511.56 points), with a turnover of 147 million euros, of which 18.2 million euros related to pre-agreed packages. 

The banking index, already up by almost +6% in 2025, continued to climb to 9-year highs, ending up +0.69% and 1,363 points.

ΝΒG shares stood out at +1.69% and 8.048 euros, Eurobank shares followed at +0.47% and 2.357 euros, Piraeus shares traded +0.36% and 4.195 euros, while Alpha shares fell -0.23% and 1.723 euros.

In the high-cap index (+0.22% and 3,680 points), the shares of ELVALCHALKOR climbed +3.2% and 2.23 euros, reaching a new 10-month high. OTE shares also gained 2.1%, recovering to EUR 15, while AIA shares gained almost 1%, exceeding the EUR 8.2 listing price. Cenergy's shares returned to a record high of 10 euros, closing up 0.5%. On the flip side, Jumbo and Hellaktor shares lost 1.9% and 2.2%, respectively. OPAP and Aegean, meanwhile, lost 0.6% and 0.7%.