{"id":9484,"date":"2026-06-08T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9484"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:12:00","slug":"european-stock-markets-shares-fall-to-a-two-week-low-jump-for-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9484","title":{"rendered":"European stock markets: shares fall to a two-week low &#8211; Jump for oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pan-European <b>STOXX 600<\/b> index fell to a two-week low in early trading today, after increasing tensions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The STOXX 600 was down 0.9 percent at 616.04 points in the early minutes of the session, with all major regional indices moving into negative territory.<\/p>\n<p>Crude oil jumped after <b>an exchange of fire between Israel and Iran<\/b> over the weekend, jeopardizing the fragile <b>ceasefire<\/b> in the region and overshadowing any hopes for an imminent end to the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Stock prices are trending down at the start of today&#8217;s Athens Stock Exchange session, following the downward trend in European markets. <\/p>\n<p>The General Price Index at 11:00 a.m. is at <b>2,337.23 points, down 0.78 percent.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The value of transactions is 26.59 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>The high-cap index is down 0.81 percent, while the mid-cap index is down 0.70 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Of the high-cap stocks<b>, the biggest rises were recorded by Optima Bank (+1.08%), Motor Oil (+0.65%), HELPE (+0.49%) and PPC (+0.37%).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, <b>the biggest decline is recorded by shares of Metlen (-1.51%), Viohalco (-1.44%), Elvalhalcor (-1.35%), Allwyn (-1.26%) and Ethniki (-1.22%).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>12 stocks are moving up, 74 down and 12 remain stable.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest rise is recorded by shares of: <b>Lanacam (+2.86%) and Unibios (+1.24%), while the biggest decline is recorded by: Cordello Bros (-8.69%) and Frigoglass (-4.76%).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell to a two-week low today in early trading, after tensions escalated in the Middle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}