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Economic sentiment at 88.5 in May, consumer confidence begins to stabilise
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s economic sentiment (ESI) fell by 10.8 points month-on-month in May to reach 88.5 points, European Commission (EC) figures showed on Thursday. In May, the Employment Expectations Indicator (EEI) for Greece came to 94.6 points compared to 102.4 p...
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Import prices stabilise at high levels in Jan with rise of 0.4 pct YoY
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s import price index barely moved in January, as it rose by just 0.4 percent year-on-year (YoY), after a rise of 11 percent in December, according to data released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) on Tuesday. The index peaked in Apr...
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Polls show Golden Dawn support dropping after murder, New Democracy profiting most
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor New Democracy fell from 20.1 percent to 19 percent and SYRIZA saw its ratings drop from 20.5... 5.3 to 4.3 percent. The only two parties that saw their ratings rise were former coalition partner
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Why did Greece return to bond markets now? Was it the right decision?
Economyis just one paving stone in this process. It signifies an end to one part of the crisis, which saw.... There is a flipside, though. For starters, the first day of trading for the new bond saw the yield climb
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Five things to take away from the first round of Greek local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsbefore. The graph below produced by Public Issue suggests SYRIZA saw a 13.2 percentage point increase... regions. Although New Democracy saw support for its candidates fall by just over six percentage
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Historic victory for SYRIZA in EU vote unlikely to dislodge Greek coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsopposition party could point to the fact that New Democracy and PASOK (Elia) saw their share of the vote drop... saw its support decline by a combined total of almost 11 percentage points. Nevertheless, the fact
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How Greek banks moved into a new era
Agora. The highest quarterly NPL increase was posted by Eurobank, which saw a rise of 1.5 percentage... increase, Piraeus shares saw a modest increase of 6 percent, while Eurobank and National shares have
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Greece's biggest problem? Society's lack of openness
Agorabeen cited as being central to its malaise. Conservatives saw in the country a textbook case... of the private sector. Some analyses went a little deeper and saw clientelism as the core pathology, an acid
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Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014
2012. September also saw the highest reading for the month-on-month rise in the number of employed... demanded by the troika. Cool heads did not prevail in New Democracy either. Samaras saw his party
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Divided we fall?
AgoraAntonis Samaras became the arch-proponent of the anti-memorandum line, feeding the populism that saw... fed antagonism. Samaras's New Democracy cultivated the "theory of the two extremes," which saw
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