Athens News Agency: News in English, 02-07-04

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

CONTENTS

[01] Foreign Exchange Rates - Friday

[02] Friday weather - Sunny all over the country

[03] Greek stocks end 1.35 percent higher on Thursday

[01] Foreign Exchange Rates - Friday

Indicative tourist buying rates per euro until Friday

U.S. dollar 0.986

Pound sterling 0.646

Danish kroner 7.487

Swedish kroner 9.201

Japanese yen 118.4

Swiss franc 1.476

Norwegian kroner 7.381

Cyprus pound 0.583

Canadian dollar 1.511

Australian dollar 1.774

[02] Friday weather - Sunny all over the country

Sunny throughout Greece on Friday with a chance of scattered could later in the day in the central and northern parts of the country. Northerly winds, moderate to strong on the Aegean. Temperatures between 19C to 36C on the mainland, 23C to 33C on the islands.

Sunny in Athens with temperatures ranging between 23C to 36C. The same for Thessaloniki, 21C to 35C.

[03] Greek stocks end 1.35 percent higher on Thursday

Greek stocks ended Thursday's session higher in the Athens Stock Exchangefollowing a positive trend in international markets.

The general index ended 1.35 percent higher at 2,193.72 points, with turnover a low 63.7 millin euros.

The IT Solution and the Insurance sectors suffered losses (0.72 percent and 0.09 percent, respectively), while all other sector indices scored gains led by Telecoms, Textile and Construction (2.25 percent, 1.88 percent and 1.75 percent).

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks rose 1.11 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index ended 0.93 percent higher and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index rose 1.0 percent.

Broadly, advancers led decliners by 234 to 76 with another 47 issues unchanged.

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