With any profit-taking moves offset by demand, as buying interest from foreign capital also remains strong, the Athens Stock Exchange is moving to nine-year highs, with YTD gains for Greek stocks now hovering around 20 billion euros and the General Index to be at the top of the world's returns, recording a 35% increase this year.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis didn't just defy pollsters with his sweeping election victory in Greece on Sunday. He also broke through the barriers that his main political opponent tried to put up against him, according to a Bloomberg analysis of the elections held in Greece.

The Athens Stock Exchange stands out in one of Goldman Sachs' top picks among Europe's emerging markets, with the American bank pointing out that the Greek market presents the risks of regional markets, but its shares are cheap.