Piraeus Financial Holdings S.A. (OTCMKTS:BPIRY) Short Interest Up 159.8% in December

Piraeus Financial Holdings S.A. (OTCMKTS:BPIRY) was the target of a large increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 106,500 shares, an increase of 159.8% from the December 15th total of 41,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 496,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.2 days.

Piraeus Financial Price Performance

OTCMKTS:BPIRY opened at $4.25 on Tuesday. Piraeus Financial has a fifty-two week low of $3.43 and a fifty-two week high of $4.65. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $4.04 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $4.06.

About Piraeus Financial

Piraeus Financial Holdings SA, together with its subsidiaries, provides banking products and services in Greece and internationally. It operates through Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Piraeus Financial Markets, Other, and NPE Management Unit segments. The company offers saving, current, term, blocked, guaranteed, and other deposits; retail lending products, such as mortgages, consumer, personal, and other retail loans, as well as credit cards; and corporate lending for large corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as for public sectors.