The Athens Stock Exchange opened on Friday with equity prices rising and the basic share price index up 0.58% at 670.57 points at 11 a.m. with turnover at 8.65 million euros.

The FTSE/ASE Large Cap index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks was up 0.48% and the FTSE/ASE Mid Cap index was up 0.18%.

On individual sector indices, the biggest gains were in Banks (+3.56%), Commerce (+3.31%) and Construction (+3.05%). The biggest losses were in Food (-1.85%), Telecoms (-1.29%) and Oil (-1.01%).

24 stocks increased, 16 fell and 6 remained unchanged.