Six firms out of 14 control 77.5% of all CSE trades according to data released by the stock exchange. During January 2006, the top firm was SFS Securities, which was ranked as the firm with the biggest market share with 14.56% of all trades. Egnatia FS was second with a 14.14% share, followed by last

Bank of Cyprus shares moved marginally higher on Friday from their Thursday slump, bringing some sort of stability to the CSE, which had corrected sharply lower on Thursday in tandem with the BOC decline. BOC shares closed Friday at CYP 3.23, up 0.9% on the day on CYP 2.15 mln volume, which was just short