Following the previous week's correction, the Athens Stock Exchange market was able to make a strong recovery and return to the psychological level of 1,400 units, with bank shares and PPC leading the way. The General Price Index closed at 1,401.35 points, up 1.29%.

The value of transactions amounted to 113.85 million euros, while 26,193,302 shares were traded. The high-cap index rose 1.39%, while the mid-cap index gained 1.84%.

The banking index closed with a 2.68% jump to 1,195.96 points with Alpha recording a 4.28% rally to 1.62 euros, while Piraeus also posted strong gains of 2.9% to 3.833 euros. Νational Bank of Greece made significant gains with +2.39% at 7.27 euros and Eurobank at 1.81 euros with +1.6%. Among the high-cap stocks, the biggest rises were recorded by PPC (+4.76%), Alpha Bank (+4.28%), Elvalahalcor (+3.30%), Piraeus (+2.93%) and Viohalco (+2.50%). On the contrary, Motor Oil (-0.66%), Coca Cola HBC (-0.57%), OPAP (-0.43%) and OTE (-0.43%) were the biggest decliners.