The Athens Stock Exchange is stabilizing in negative territory but with limited losses, following the rhythms that prevail internationally after the new increase in inflation in the US.

In particular, the General Index is at 1,414.86 points, down 0.38%, with turnover at a particularly low level of 32 million euros, while 6.8 million pieces have been traded.

Pressures on banks remain within limited levels, but with the loss of the initial momentum shown by Mytilineos, the GI loses a significant part of the support it found in the morning.

Among banks that have been steady since the morning all down, Alpha is at -0.2%, Eurobank is at -0.4% and Piraeus is at -0.5% and National Bank is at -0.95%.

Mytilineos which saw buying up to 36.42 euros in the morning (+1.79%) is now limited to 35.86 euros with +0.3% but with the highest turnover of the day at 4.5 million euros.

PPC has turned negative with -0.3% at 11.95 after seeing buying up to 12.13 euros (+1.08%) with increased turnover of more than 3.2 million euros, while Cenergy, Aegean and Viohalco are down more than 1% on the FTSE.

The mid-caps are flying low in both turnover and direction with Kri Kri at -1.7%, Aluminum at -2% (after rallying 4.25% yesterday), ADMIE and PPA at -1.3% and Intrakat and Intracom at -1.1%.

Beyond that, Petropoulos jumps 2.3% to €9.72 with a turnover of over €530k after it will distribute a more than triple dividend compared to last year (€0.82) with a cut-off date of April 15.