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  1. Economic sentiment drops off in Sept as consumer confidence falls for fourth month
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    has increased by 13.6 points. The services index improved by 8.5 points month-on-month to 34.5 points, marking another year high. This year, services confidence has improved an impressive 64.9 points

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  2. Consumer confidence takes off in May as rest of sectors deliver mixed data
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    of negative readings. Since June last year, industry confidence is down by only 0.9 points. The services... in the previous month. Services confidence has improved by roughly 17 points on the rolling 12-month. Retail

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  3. More fiscal measures lined up as Covid-19 seen shaving up to 0.9 pts off 2020 growth
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    Economy

    and services, while the second is heightened uncertainty that will hit consumer confidence and business

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  4. Greece: The gathering storm
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    Agora

    will be an extremely testing experience for everyone concerned. There are several reasons to begin bracing... months arises. While the Commission, the Eurogroup and the ECB signed off relatively easily..., which has no experience of this process and will also have to launch, in parallel, discussions

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  5. Greek banks' NPL selloff gathers speed
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    EconomyBanking

    to write-offs and cured loans, another strategy to reduce bad loans is to sell them off in bundles... that Greek banks beat their NPE reduction targets, after being off course in the preceding two quarters. Excluding off-balance sheet items, NPE stock was reduced by 2.7 billion euros quarter-on-quarter

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  6. On monetary policy and inflation targeting
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    Agora

    in Country A has foreshadowed additional interest rate increases aiming to pinch off a bigger upside... targets the price level, so it is expecting that monetary policy will continue to tighten to ease off... volatility and almost deflation, before the recent big bounce in inflation taking off

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  7. Opinion divided in Greece over seeking ICJ settlement with Turkey
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    and cons of a judicial settlement with Turkey. The second strain of thinking seeks to preserve the current

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  8. I know what you did the summer before last
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    Agora

    no experience, or sense, of how big the day-to-day difficulties would be,” he said. “I think, now, I have... the weaknesses that led to much of the country sticking its fingers in its ears and blocking itself off... the worst economic crisis a developed country has experienced in recent history and an extended period

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  9. Check, please: How much Alexis Tsipras's first months cost Greece
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    Agora

    the 4.5 percent target, and by the experience we now have that investments have not been as responsive... controls at the end of June 2015 to stave off an intense bank run that the economy contracted. Even... at 8.6 billion euros. As a result of the liquidity squeeze that the SYRIZA-led government experienced

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  10. The first cut is the deepest? Greek pension reforms in context

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    a 2015 MacroPolis blog post left off, trying to give a more balanced view on a highly charged topic... The experience for pension recipients has been more varied than is often suggested by the media... the top 2 percent of pensioners actually experienced cuts of 40 percent or more. Since 2013, detailed

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