Athens News Agency: News in English, 02-07-17

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

CONTENTS

[01] Sessions of Harvard Olympia Summer School begin in Ancient Olympia

[02] Foreign Exchange Rates - Thursday

[03] Weather Forecast: Rain in north, sunny elsewhere Thursday

[04] Greek stocks end up, resist international pressures

[01] Sessions of Harvard Olympia Summer School begin in Ancient Olympia

The sessions of the Harvard Olympia Summer School, organised by the Olympic Centre for the Study of Ancient Greek Culture, got underway at Ancient Olympia on Wednesday.

Present at the opening ceremony were Education Minister Petros Efthymiou, U.S. Ambassador to Athens Thomas Miller, Patra Univestity Rector Nikolaos Zoumbos, the Kokkalis Foundation board member Eleni Kokkali, academics, politicians and local officials.

[02] Foreign Exchange Rates - Thursday

Indicative tourist buying rates per euro

U.S. dollar 1.014

Pound sterling 0.648

Danish kroner 7.489

Swedish kroner 9.398

Japanese yen 118.3

Swiss franc 1.477

Norwegian kroner 7.436

Cyprus pound 0.581

Canadian dollar 1.563

Australian dollar 1.828

[03] Weather Forecast: Rain in north, sunny elsewhere Thursday

Rain or storms are forecast from early afternoon in the northern Ionian, Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace, which will see scattered cloud earlier in the day. The rest of the country will be hot and sunny. Winds west-northwesterly, light to moderate, turning strong in parts of the south. In the west and north, temperatures will range from 21C to 33C; on the rest of the mainland from 23C to 37C; and in the islands from 24C to 36C. Temperatures in Athens between 26C and 37C; and in Thessaloniki from 24C to 33C.

[04] Greek stocks end up, resist international pressures

Greek stocks ended Wednesday's session moderately higher as the Athens Stock Exchange was showing more resilience to a turmoil hitting international markets this week.

The general index rose 0.58 percent to end at 2,136.58 points, after spending only two minutes in negative territory during the entire session.

Turnover was an improved 573.8 million euros, boosted by the listing of OPAP's shares after a successful flotation of an additional 19 percent of its equity capital.

The Holding, Construction and Retail sectors scored the biggest percentage gains of the day (1.99 percent, 1.30 percent and 1.10 percent, respectively), while the Insurance, Metals and Cement sectors suffered the heaviest percentage losses (0.84 percent, 0.67 percent and 0.28 percent).

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks rose 0.53 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index ended 0.48 percent higher and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index rose 0.25 percent.

Broadly, advancers led decliners by 186 to 103 with another 65 issues unchanged.

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