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  1. After Q3 results, what next for Greek banks?

    Agora

    above the market average. In contrast, National Bank’s group NII was dragged down by Finansbank due... – for Alpha and Piraeus – stemming from the shut-down of overlapping branches, relocation of headquarters

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  2. Debt relief or debt restructuring for Greece?

    Agora

    option constitute an attempt to kick the proverbial can down the road? In the material assessment... left to their own devices. They incurred losses totalling 12 billion euros on the write down

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  3. Primary budget surplus in Nov at 1.2bln euros, 2013 target in reach

    Economy

    reached 43.62 billion euros, down 4.9 percent. Tax refunds fell by 16.8 percent to 2.47 billion, which... in November with the 11 months figure down 7.3 percent to 39.27 billion. Furthermore, the marked drop

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  4. Europe missed an opportunity on banking union
    Illustration by Manos Symeonakis [http://www.cartoonmovement.com/p/6035]

    Agora

    bust or needed recapitalisation would not drag the sovereign down with them, as they did in Ireland... be restructured or shut down. A couple of days earlier, ECB president Mario Draghi warned bluntly

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  5. Greece in 2014: Where are we?
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    Agora

    , it is doing so by its fingernails. Its parliamentary majority is down to just three, whereas... decision to shut down public broadcaster ERT overnight, thereby triggering Democratic Left's decision

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  6. Buying time: The delayed crisis of democratic capitalism - a review
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    Agora

    the least. This form of ‘debt capitalism’ came crashing down on the back of the financial crisis... are financial institutions. A trickle-down effect has yet to be registered beyond banks. None

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  7. December fails to boost Greek retail sector: Sales fell by 6.7 pct
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    Economy

    Greece’s retail trade index fell by 6.7 percent in December in terms of turnover and was down by 6.1 percent as far as volume is concerned, according to data published by the Hellenic Statistical... Commerce (ESEE), tweeted that retail sales reached 4.7 billion euros, which was 19 percent down

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  8. Industrial production up 1.1 pct in Jan, first consecutive rise since Aug 2007

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    and intermediate goods showed a modest increase of 1.3 and 0.9 percent respectively. Consumer durables (down 7.8 percent) was the sector mostly hit by the economic crisis followed by non-durables (down 1.2

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  9. Greek recession slowed from revised 7 pct in 2012 to 3.9 pct last year

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    measures that eroded household disposable income (down by 7.5 – 8.8 percent in the first three quarters... a negative trend in the fourth quarter (down 5.6 percent), following a 2.7 percent rise in the third quarter

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  10. A return to capital markets for Greek banks but no return to domestic lending
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    Agora

    shareholders difficult to turn down at present. By contrast, domestic depositors are drawing down

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