STOCK EXCHANGE: Helsinki continues to decline – Neste has turned around from yesterday’s run

On Friday afternoon, the general index of the Helsinki Stock Exchange was down 0.6 percent at 12,889 points.

The development of the Helsinki stock exchange largely followed the movement of the world’s largest indexes. In Asia, the stock markets have moved in a moderate decline on Friday.

At the forefront of Helsinki exchange Liquid the course turned upside down compared to Thursday. At the time of the afternoon review, Neste’s share price was down 2.5 percent, after rising 9.8 percent yesterday.

Nordic the share was down 0.2 percent in the afternoon.

He only made a rise in the top of the shift Sampo and Nokia. Sampo’s price was up 0.5 percent, Nokia rose 0.3 percent at the time of review.

Wall Street’s Index Futures are waiting for a bullish opening in the United States. The price of a barrel of oil remained close to one hundred dollars in the afternoon.

Kesko’s sales increased

Information security company Withsecure the board submitted an application to Nasdaq Helsinki to stop public trading in Withsecure’s shares and to remove the shares from the stock exchange list.

In the application, it is requested that the delisting of Withsecure’s shares traded on the Nasdaq Helsinki stock exchange list take place as soon as possible after Diana Bidco has received ownership rights to all shares of Withsecure in the pending redemption procedure.

Easorin A block trade was made with the shares on Friday morning. The object of the transaction was 197,527 company shares, which corresponds to approximately 0.4 percent of the company’s market value. In the block transaction, the unit price of the shares was 0.635 euros. The total value of the transaction rose to 125,430 euros.

Easor was previously a financial management company Talenomista and trading in the company’s shares started on the stock exchange on March 2.

Kesko-group’s sales increased by 5.0 percent in February. The group’s sales increased in all its branches and totaled EUR 951.7 million in February.

In the grocery trade, Kesko’s sales to K-​​food stores increased by 2.6 percent in February. In the construction and building technology trade, sales grew by a comparable 6.0 percent in the technical trade.