The Athens Stock Exchange saw a drop in equity prices at 11 a.m. on Thursday with the basic share price index down 2.37%, standing at 859.61 points and turnover at 9.985 million euros.

The FTSE/ASE Large Cap index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks decreased by 2.70% and the FTSE/ASE Mid Cap index was down by 2.69%.

Most individual sectors moved downwards, with the biggest losses in Banks (-5.85%), Oil (-3.32%) and Financials (-2.82%).

30 of the stocks traded were rising, 87 were falling and 17 remained unchanged.