Go's equity extended its recent positive run with a further 0.2 per cent increase to another six-year high of €2.57,5 albeit on shallow volumes of 1,760 shares.

Similarly, the share price of Tigné Mall advanced by 1.9 per cent to 52c5, also on low volumes of 1,000 shares.

Meanwhile, higher volumes were transacted in Medserv as just over 34,000 shares traded at the €1.27,5 level representing no change from the previous closing price.

The share prices of the two large banks closed the day unchanged. Bank of Valletta maintained the €2.20 level on 9,795 shares and HSBC traded unchanged at the €2 level on just 1,000 shares.

Investors now await the results of the asset quality review conducted by the European Central Bank. These should be published by the end of October.

Likewise, 4,333 Midi shares were exchanged at the equity’s 2014 low of 23c across a single trade.

On the bond market, the Rizzo Farrugia MGS Index edged 0.1 per cent higher to another all-time high of 1,085.929 points as Eurozone yields slid back to the 0.985 per cent level on hopes of further stimulus measures by the ECB in a further bid to prop up the region’s ailing economy.

The Finance Ministry yesterday announced that the Investment Registration Scheme is being extended by two months to November 30.

The purpose of the Investment Registration Scheme 2014 is to provide individuals and companies resident in Malta with the opportunity to regularise their position under the Income Tax Act in respect of their holdings of eligible assets which were derived from income, including capital gains, that had not been duly declared to the tax authorities.

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