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Overview: Greek Budget, Europe’s Nominees and I.M.F. and World Bank Meetings
October 6th, 2014
Greece will unveil its 2015 draft budget, hearings for vice-presidential nominees for the European Commission will be held, and the World Bank and I.M.F. open annual meetings in Washington. Greece is set to unveil its draft budget for 2015 ...
Greek Stock Recovery dims as Europe Turmoil Flattens ASE
August 19th, 2014
The curtain is coming down on Greece’s star turn with international equity investors. Among the best-performing Europe gauges in 2013 after the government carried out the world’s biggest-ever debt restructuring, Greece’s ASE Index has become one of the worst, ...
The Greek Bond Dump
May 20th, 2014
Here’s a chart showing Greece’s 10-year bond yield during the past 10 days: Here’s what happened. On Thursday, speculation swept the markets that the government was about to levy a retroactive tax on profits made on trading Greek government ...
Greek 10-year yields rise day after five-year sale
April 11th, 2014
Greek 10-year government bond yields rose on Friday, underperforming other euro zone debt, a day after Greece returned to the market with a well received five-year bond sale. Ten-year yields stood 4 basis points higher at 6.018 percent. Greece ...
Italians Join Greeks Selling Bank Stock to Once-Wary Investors
March 27th, 2014
Eight Italian banks are preparing to sell at least 8 billion euros ($11 billion) of stock to shore up their balance sheets, as nations shunned during the sovereign-debt crisis return to favor with investors. Leading the pack is Banca ...
Greece is fighting for debt relief
May 4th, 2017
Relief map for Greek debt? Not without a fight or two Easing Greece’s fiscal path forward is likely to be the next great struggle in the country’s agonizing, seven-year, three-package bankruptcy saga now that a bailout pact has opened ...
Athens agrees more austerity measures to secure bailout
May 2nd, 2017
The Greek government has agreed to impose more taxes and pension cuts on its citizens in order to pave the way for long-awaited debt relief talks with international creditors. “The negotiations for a technical deal were concluded on all ...
Greece says ‘not a euro more’ from its austerity-impoverished population
February 17th, 2017
European Union officials are urging Greece and its creditors to strike a financial aid deal for the country quickly to safeguard economic recovery. However, Athens has refused a demand from its creditors for more austerity measures. The Greek government ...
Grexit is back? Greece faces critical few weeks
February 6th, 2017
In the week of Groundhog Day it seemed entirely appropriate: Greek farmers, many on tractors, have once again been blockading roads and border posts amid mounting signs that the country long at the centre of Europe’s debt woes is ...
Central Bank of Greece forecast a strengthening of growth for 2017
December 16th, 2016
Today, in accordance with its Statute, the Bank of Greece submitted its Interim Report on Monetary Policy 2016 to the Speaker of the Greek Parliament and the Cabinet. Progress with the implementation of the programme and with economic recovery ...
