Greek banking stocks plunged for a second successive day but almost all other blue chip shares rose after the five-week shutdown of the exchange.<br /><br /> And in a further move offering a sign of progress Finance Minister <br />Euclid Tsakalotos said he expected all issues with lenders to be concluded this week.<br /><br /> The banking index crashed to its limit of 30 percent at which point trading is halted. The main index closed down 1.22 percent. <br /><br /> “The second day of trading showed clear signs that we are moving towards a normalization of the exchange market after a month without transactions. Already all the sectors and the indexes that represent these sectors have been moving in a positive direction with the exception of three – the banking, the food and health sectors,” explained Socrates Lazardis Hellenic Exchanges CEO. <br /><br /> The blue-chip retail sector was up nearly 6 percent, gaming group OPAP, 4.5 percent and Aegean Airlines 8.1 percent. <br /><br /> Even so stocks have fallen to roughly the level they were
