Athens News Agency: News in English, 02-04-22

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Foreign Exchange Rates - Tuesday

[02] Weather Forecast: Cloudy on Tuesday

[03] Greek stocks end lower in ASE

[01] Foreign Exchange Rates - Tuesday

Indicative tourist buying rates per euro

U.S. dollar 0.895

Pound sterling 0.618

Danish kroner 7.491

Swedish kroner 9.281

Japanese yen 116.2

Swiss franc 1.478

Norwegian kroner 7.670

Cyprus pound 0.580

Canadian dollar 1.408

Australian dollar 1.659

[02] Weather Forecast: Cloudy on Tuesday

The day will start cloudy in all parts of the country, turning to showers and storms mainly in the centre and north. Winds northerly, light to strong, turning very strong in parts of the Aegean. In the north, temperatures will range from 8C to 18C; on the rest of the mainland from 10C to 21C; and in the islands from 13C to 20C. Light cloud in Athens with temperatures between 12C and 20C. Rain or a storm likely in Thessaloniki, with temperatures from 8C to 18C.

[03] Greek stocks end lower in ASE

Equity prices ended lower the first trading session of the week following a trend in international markets, in the Athens Stock Exchange on Monday.

The general index fell 0.77 percent to 2,204.43 points, with turnover a low 67.5 million euros.

The Bank, Textile, Wholesale and Investment sectors suffered the heaviest percentage losses of the day (1.63 percent, 1.30 percent, 0.97 percent and 0.96 percent, respectively), while the IT and Retail sectors scored gains (0.50 percent and 0.02 percent, respectively).

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks fell 1.0 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index eased 0.64 percent and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index ended 1.07 percent lower.

Broadly, decliners led advancers by 258 to 58 with another 39 issues unchanged.

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