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ELSTAT confirms third consecutive year or fiscal surplus in 2018
Economyfor public investments. According to the data in the second notification, in 2018 Greece ran a total surplus of 1.8 billion euros, or 1 percent of GDP. This is the third consecutive total surplus... notification and the first one that was published in April this year. The total surplus is lower by 0.1
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Govt proposes property VAT reduction to kickstart home sales
EconomyFeaturesslow. In the first seven months of this year, building permits rose by 4.5 percent. Total permits..., when the total came to 414.7 million euros. For the first half of 2019, the net amount... to the third quarter of 2019, a total of 5,302 individual residence permits were granted via
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Unemployment edges down to 16.7 pct, lowest since April 2011
EconomyMacroeconomyof 1.8 percent. Total employment reached 3.92 million people. ELSTAT’s data showed that there were... compared to July and by 4,407 persons when compared with August 2018 (-0.1 percent). The total... to the same month last year, the hirings balance was 3,905 lower this September. Total hirings came
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Alpha Bank posts net profits of 4.7 mln in Q3
EconomyBankingof Greek SMEs secured with real estate assets with total on-balance sheet gross book value... ratio at 67 percent. Total coverage including collateral came to 119 percent. Regarding the auctions of repossessed assets, a total of 2,568 auctions were held between January to October. The success
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Current account shows surplus of 886.6 bln in September, aggregate figure almost balanced
EconomyMacroeconomyof the other (excluding general government) sectors. Total exports in September came to 2.70... time, total imports reached 4.69 billion euros, from 4.63 billion euros last year, a rise of 1.1... billion. Total exports rose by 1.5 percent, while imports rose by 3.1 percent.The respective amounts
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NBG reports net profits of 171 mln in Q3, NPE’s fall on loan sales
EconomyBanking. The total Greek deposit yield stood at 37 bps in Q3, unchanged QoQ, while the loan yield came to 366 bps... Assistance. The total amount currently consists of TLTRO funding from the ECB, with the Bank enjoying... of agreed divestments, the CET1 ratio stands at 16.8 percent with the Total Capital ratio at 17.7 percent
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Eurobank net profits at 56.3 mln in Q3 from continued operations
EconomyBankingaround 700 million euros. In Q3, a total of 1,970 property auctions were noted with 27 percent..., with the total now representing only ECB liquidity. YoY, Eurosystem funding has fallen by 9.8 billion... the figure for total deposits to 42.3 billion euros in Q3. On an annual basis, deposits have increased by 4.7
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Budget for 2020 eyes faster growth while balancing tax cuts with more revenues
EconomyMacroeconomy, with taxes making up 52.17 billion euros of the total. Taxes on goods and services will be higher... administration total 1.18 billion euros, with the lion’s share coming from lower taxes for corporations... by introducing 1.86 billion euros of total offsetting measures, driven by anticipated 557 million euros
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Piraeus Bank posts net profit of 44 mln in Q3 from continued operations
EconomyBankingin mid-July 2018, meaning ECB funding makes up the total current sum. QoQ, the bank reduced its ECB... as of Q3 2019 was 14.4 percent, while pro-forma total capital, including the Tier II issue, came to 15.3... strengthen the CET1 and total capital ratio at 15.1 percent and 16.0 percent respectively. Commenting
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Government opts for modest tax relief, but who will benefit?
EconomyFeaturesjust starting out who will be taxed at a lower introductory rate. The total cost of adjusting... to roughly 40 percent of total declared incomes. Business Also included in the tax package is a reduction... percent in 2021. Tax on dividends has been halved from 10 percent to 5 percent, at a total cost of 75
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