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Election results in Greece lift uncertainty, for now
Agora. Uncertainty took center stage. The Athens General Index plunged more than 15 percent within the course... percent lead over ND, the senior government coalition party. Elia (PASOK) clocked a better than... than 10 percent of their previous electorate power, their combined power still stands ahead of SYRIZA
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ELSTAT survey finds 2013 household budgets devastated, inequality persists
Societyin the rural than the urban areas. The average monthly expenditure in the urban areas fell 7.1 percent...) is 5.7 times higher than that of the 1st (333 euros). The respective ratio stood at 5.9 in 2012... compared to that (1,030 euros) of the non-poor population. Food and housing account for more than half
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Wealth in Greece plunged by 170 bln since 2007, report finds
Societyon year, but that it had fallen by more than a fifth in Greece over the last seven years. The evolution... wealth in Greece is estimated at 0.56 trillion euros, similar to that in Finland, which has less than... population than Greece. According to JB estimates, the wealthiest 10 percent of European households have
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Greek banks may soon breathe sigh of relief on capital needs
Agora. This could trim their capital shortfall by more than 2 billion euros. Citing banking sources, Ta Nea daily...’s plan indicated that the coalition believes more than 10 billion will still remain available after... of additional capital that will be needed rather than investor appetite. A similar statement was made
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Significant rises for Greek economic sentiment, consumer confidence in October
EconomyMacroeconomy(YtD) balance remains positive, showing an improvement of slightly less than 11 points from the 91.4... peaked in June at -47.7 and eased by more than 3 points since then. However, the YtD balance indicates an improvement of more than 12 points. The lowest consumer confidence figure was recorded
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General gov't primary cash surplus rises to 3.4 bln in Oct but arrears also growing
EconomyMacroeconomyin the 10-month period of 2014, 2.4 times higher than the 1.43 billion posted last year, according the gg bulletin... cash deficit narrowed by more than 2.5 billion euros to 1.68 billion from 4.19 billion... in the 10-month period, with the state budget figure at 2.03 billion, making up more than half of total. Last
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Newsletter 9 - 30/12/2014
to gain any more than the 168 vote he garnered in the second round – an indication... by 0.6 percentage points in less than two weeks. The narrowing of the difference between the two parties... restructuring of more than 50 percent, most likely referring to the Greek Loan Facility/European Financial
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Samaras sets out New Democracy's plans for growth
EconomyGDP rise of more than 30 percent on the 2014 figure of 178.9 billion that would bring nominal GDP... lower than the peak of 242.1 billion in 2008. However, for this target to be achieved, nominal GDP..., tourism and agriculture are projected to contribute more than half (55 percent or almost 30
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Greek time deposit rate falls to 1.82 pct in Dec, lowest during euro membership
EconomyMacroeconomyrate remains around 80 bps above the euro area average and more than 60 bps higher than the respective... mid-2010. However, the current rate remains around 2 percentage points higher than the euro area average... stable at 5.97 percent (for amounts lower than 250,000 euros) and at 5.22 percent (for amounts between
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Newsletter 15 - 13/02/2015
could be accepted and whether Greece would be allowed to issue more than the 15 billion euros in T... the lowest since 2011. Greek investors (mainly banks) have to cover the entire issues, compared to less than... that more than 15 billion have been withdrawn from Greek banks in last two months, bringing
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