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Newsletter 494 - 13/02/2026
. Rents show no sign of easing, with January figures up 8.7%, further exacerbating the housing crisis... - shows that median income in Greece last year was just over €1,100 gross in 2025, up from €1,039... by 2.1 pct, with rents specifically up by 8.7 pct YoY. Industrial Production There was only a minor
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Newsletter 496 - 27/02/2026
increasingly important. Multi-front contest PASOK remains the nominal runner‑up, but its position... in which the headline exports figure fell - by 2.8 percent, following a 2 percent drop in 2024... representing 8.5 percent of all enterprises. SMEs employing fewer than 50 people make up more than 87
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Newsletter 498 - 13/03/2026
a similar trend: ND at 25.5% in voting intention, up 1.5 points since January, with a projected vote...‑anticipated investment surge.MacroeconomyCharts of the weekCPI Inflation picked up pace slightly... a concern with rents up by 8.2 pct from a year earlier. February also saw a jump in clothing that grew
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Newsletter 499 - 20/03/2026
is needed for “justice” and a “clean‑up”. If there is a “stability dividend” for PM Mitsotakis.... The 2026 budget projects indirect tax revenues of 40.9 billion euros, up from 39.21 billion last year... the same pattern: 27.5 percent in 2025, unchanged from 2020 and up from 26.1 percent in 2023. Inequality
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Alpha Bank Q1 NII rises by 5.3 pct, commission income soars by 29 pct
EconomyBankingmillion euros in Q1 2025, a drop of almost 17 percent. Normalised profit after tax was 221 million euros... million euros, up 2.1 percent from 350.2 million in Q1 2025. P&L Net interest income (NII) was 416.3 million euros in Q1, up by 5.3 percent year-on-year, from 395.3 million. Net fee and commission
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Central government debt drops to 400.52 bln in Q1 due to lower repos
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s central government debt recorded a drop of roughly 5.5 billion euros to 400.52 billion... euros. FSM loans continue to make up the bulk of the total at 210 billion euros in Q1, having...) debt made up 73.2 percent of the total, while short-term (up to 1 year) and medium-term (1 to 5
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Retail sales growth of 6.1 pct YoY in March spurred by fuel as war takes toll
EconomyMacroeconomy, automotive fuel was up sharply by 11 percent, non-food increased by 4.9 percent and food sales rose by 5.6 percent. Supermarket sales rose by 6 percent and food and beverages were up by 4.1 percent. Clothing and footwear moved down with a 1.2 percent drop. Pharmaceuticals increased by 2.3 percent YoY
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Services elevate economic sentiment in June as all other components fall
EconomyMacroeconomyin the previous month, now up by roughly 5.5 points since July 2025. Construction confidence had a sharp drop... slightly up at 95 points, from 93.7 points in May. Greek consumer confidence reversed its recovery to -52.8.... The services index jumped to 39.5 points, from 23.8 in the previous month. Services confidence is up
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Disposable income edges up by 0.2 pct YoY in Q4, final consumption up by 2.7 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyGreek household disposable income grew by 0.2 percent year-on-year (YoY) in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2019, decreasing from the rise of 3.5 percent noted in the previous quarter, according to Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data released on Fri...
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Govt weighs up stricter measures to suppress Covid-19, talks up vaccine hopes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreek authorities are said to have set a milestone this Friday to decide whether additional measures will be required to halt a surge in Covid-19 cases related to travel during the peak of the holiday season. The country reported 150 new cases on Monday...
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