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Fitch keeps Greece at 'BB' but revises outlook to stable with eye on Covid-19 impact
Economyof debt, it carries concessional terms from the official sector: 95 pct of it is on fixed rate terms, mitigating any interest rate risks, and the average maturity that exceeds 20 years is amongst
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PMI crashed to 29.5 points in April during sharpest ever decline
EconomyMacroeconomy. Suppliers also cut their prices, with cost burdens falling at the quickest rate for just over four years. Input buying fell at the fastest rate since July 2015 as demand for raw materials fell. Lead times
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Covid-19 lockdown, slump suppress electricity demand and edge out lignite
EconomyFeaturesfell at a slower rate of -6.9 percent. More striking still has been the effect of falling demand... a doubling in the rate of installation of photovoltaic and wind generators, a challenging target at a time
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Newsletter 253 -05/06/2020
at an almost negligible rate of 0.01 percent. Breaking down the components of imports in Q1, imports... closures seen in previous months, related to Covid-19. The rate of contraction was among
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OECD forecasts unemployment increase into 2021
EconomyFeaturesyear. The rate of unemployment under the single hit scenario is projected to rise by 2.1 percentage points (pps) in 2020 and 0.4 pps next year. Under the double hit scenario, the unemployment rate
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New tax debt up by 222 mln MoM in April, total for year at 2.44 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyin March. The IAPR noted that the VAT collectability rate, income tax collectability rate and ENFIA payment
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Govt, experts sound alarm over risk of Covid-19 control being lost
PoliticsGreek Politicsare currently intubated in ICUs. The public health authority EODY announced that the rate of new... of hand” if measures are not adhered to. Tsiodras noted that the infection rate R has increased to 1
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Newsletter 263 -11/09/2020
) unemployment rate came to 18.3 percent in June from an upward revised figure of 17.3 percent in May, Hellenic... by 0.6 percent The CPI remains at its lowest rate since July 2015 when it fell by -2.2 percent. Greece
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Defence spending, economic support plans dominate PM's policy speech
PoliticsGreek Politicsat a time when there is uncertainty in the labour market and the unemployment rate is climbing again... (with the fourth round in November totalling 600 mln euros); and keeping the reduced VAT rate
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Greek businesses under pressure due to late payments, survey shows
EconomyFeatureson their liquidity, at 56 percent of all those surveyed. Only Spanish businesses had a higher rate at 62 percent. The lowest rate was found in the Netherlands at 11 percent. In Greece, Intrum found
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