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Fitch upgrades Greek credit rating to B with stable outlook
EconomyMacroeconomy. Moody’s rating stands 3 notches lower than that of S&P and 4 notches below Fitch. Fitch notes... in 2015, which is slightly lower than the official sector forecasts of 0.6 and 2.9 percent respectively
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Bookies see clear win for SYRIZA in EU elections but not in local vote
PoliticsGreek Politics. This indirectly implies that Elia is seen getting less support than Independent Greeks and Democratic Left... to 2.75 (from 2.65) for ND. Similarly, Golden Dawn is clearly ranked higher than To Potami
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Greek elections as seen (or imagined) from Berlin
AgoraThe following is a thought experiment, which claims no more authenticity than being an exercise in the “What if?” At the core of this experiment is the question, what would various people inside... percent (more than 55 percent for those aged between 18 and 25) many analysts in the Chancellery
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Significant post-election economic challenges await Greek coalition
Economy) in 2014, 0.8 percentage points higher than Economic Adjustment Programme (EAP) target. The next troika... of unemployed is at 1.3 million, which is three times higher than in February 2009. Youth unemployment remains
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EU elections do not mark end of numbers game in Greek politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan 24 hours after the elections were held SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras claimed his party’s 3.9... sitting as independents to back its candidate. However, this is unlikely to yield much more than four
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Is post-election just pre-election in Greece?
Agoraof pharmacies. The list is longer than these few examples. This is the to-do agenda that the regular... policy makers towards Greece, but possibly in other ways than assumed in Athens. Most importantly
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SYRIZA leads in most age groups, professions but coalition parties dominant among pensioners
PoliticsGreek Politicsit garnered 18 percent, just 0.1 percentage point shy of New Democracy and 11.3 less than SYRIZA... elections. It is also of note that support for Golden Dawn ran much higher than national levels
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Cost of Greek corporate loans rises in April, remains well above euro average
EconomyMacroeconomy2013. In addition, it is still 100 bps higher than the respective rate in Spain, Portugal and Italy..., where rates rose by more than 100 bps month on month to 6.64 percent. This specific category shows
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Unemployment rate edges down for sixth straight month to 26.8 pct in March
EconomyMacroeconomyin September. Nevertheless, the March figure is still 177 percent higher than the 460,000 posted... it contracted by 1.4 percentage points YoY. In addition, the youth headline figure has more than doubled
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May sees 48.7 pct rise in number of new cars in circulation
EconomyMacroeconomylicences (accounting for more than 80 percent of total) stems from passenger cars, which soared 49.2 percent in May and 25.1 percent in the 5-month period. More than half of the first-time circulated road
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