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Athinon Avenue ended Thursday with hardly any changes to its main indexes. The day started off with a decline, as the expected 25-basis point cut by the Fed on Wednesday was already priced in, while the caution the US central bank showed in its statement led markets to believe a more restrained year is looming, according to a PIMCO commentary.

Once again, the Athens Stock Exchange posted mild gains on low turnover, with buyers driving the market through most of Monday's session.

Greek stocks ended the week with a mild decline, going against the trend, as European markets and then Wall Street responded to the chairman of the Federal Reserve's remarks that there will be an interest rate cut in September.

The general index closed at 1,432.60, a 0.24% drop. During the session, it reached a high of 1,441.39 (+0.37%) and a low of 1,432.26 (-0.27%).

For the second straight session, the Athens Stock Exchange followed European markets in posting mild gains.

The general index ended at 1,436.11 points, a 0.25% gain.

During the session it dipped as low as 1,429.26 (-0.23%), but buying interest in banks in the closing minutes limited losses in that sector and pushed the overall market into positive territory.

The Athens Stock Exchange posted gains for a fifth session in the row, finally erasing the tumble (6.27%) on Monday, August 5, when panicky investors were selling right and left.

The general index closed at 1,431.88, a gain of 0.62%, having risen as high as 1,438.67 (+1.10%) intraday.

The Athens Stock Exchange closed only marginally higher and far from the intraday high Friday. In that, it followed the general caution displayed by European markets and Wall Street.

The general index ended at 1,383.31, up 0.06%, having gained up to 0.9%. Turnover was €75.02 million. 

Blue chips gained 0.04% and mid-caps were unchanged. Banks rose 0.28%.

The Athens Stock Exchange resumed its decline Thursday after a two-session rebound from Monday's mini-crash.

In this, it followed global markets, as investors wonder whether the stock sell-off will continue.

But good news from the US, in the form of better-than-expected unemployment figures, helped stem the fall a little before the ATHEX's closing.

Recovery on the Athens Stock Exchange extended for a second straight session Wednesday, this time boosted by the greatly improved global mood.

Banks drove this recovery, as they did turnover, recovering an important part of the ground lost during Monday's big sell-off.

The month began with selling pressure on the Athens Stock Exchange, with the general index declining by as much as 1%, before steadying and limiting losses toward the end of the session.

The ATHEX general index ended 0.25% lower, closing at 1,474.44 points. Turnover was pretty high, at €99.33 million. Blue chips dropped 0.12% and mid-caps 0.47%.

The moderate cashing-in of profits that followed last week's notable rise saw the main index of the Greek stock market come off its 13-year highs of last Friday and settle for contained losses upon closing on Monday. Banks reined in the decline, as did some non-banking blue chips, while turnover returned to its usual level after last week's jump.