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Going for Growth: What next for Greece's economy and banks?
Agorawith 18.6 percent unemployment[2], millions of Greeks still don’t have work or a path to a better... the currency isn’t controlled at a domestic level – is made so much harder when the intrinsic value... 2: Source: Bank of Greece FDI investment isn’t surprising considering the cheap price of various
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New government looks for way to open discussions with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policy. Turkey has to help this framework. It has to understand it. We won’t be dragged into talks under... that Mitsotakis had been clear on this point during the election campaign. “He didn’t say that he would overturn everything as soon as he was elected, because he can’t do that, even if we wanted that. We
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
AgoraOver the last three years, you won’t have read a newspaper article, seen a TV report or listened to a radio program that referred to Greece and didn’t use the word “crisis.” And for good reason too... somebody doesn’t want printed; everything else is advertising.” I can tell you this crisis has been
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Does new troika visit spell fresh drama for Greece? Maybe not
Economymaturities for the remainder of 2013. The 3.2 billion euros of T-bills that mature in November and another 3.6 billion in December are likely to be rolled over easily. The 4 billion of T-bills... by ECB/NCBs was covered by the issuance of a T-Bill financed by Greek banks via the ELA
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Greece exceeds expectations with first return to bond markets after four years
Economyand it is an encouraging sign for Greece and Europe”. A first sign of the strong demand was evident in the last 6-month T... told the local media that the government expects the yield of the upcoming T-bill auctions to fall... on a T-bill stock of 15 billion euros. However, this has to be offset against some 100 million
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Drop ‘til you shop
Agorato be made for using Sunday shopping to create more movement in the market. It doesn’t have to be just about... been done or is being done to ensure that this won’t happen. Have Greek companies, for instance... other people’s products rather than producing our own? If there isn’t an effort to tend
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‘We’re dying to pay our taxes’
Agora. An hour and a half later, after saying he wasn’t feeling well, Elliniadis collapsed. He was having... high of 27 percent. If that wasn’t bad enough, only 15 percent of the registered jobless receive.... But being employed in Greece doesn’t necessarily mean you have an income. One in three workers is owed
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Newsletter 12 - 23/01/2015
. Kathimerini daily noted that extraordinary T-Bill issues of 1.5–2 billion may be required to cover...- and 6-month T-Bills of 7 billion in the coming two months, 2.4 billion in February and 4.6 billion... important questions that the political protagonists in recent weeks badly needed to answer but didn’t
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The immediate economic and financial hurdles for the new Greek government
EconomyProgramme2 billion euros and new funding could stem from extraordinary T-Bill issues of 1.5 – 2 billion... for T-Bills, an approval by the troika is required for any incremental borrowing using this funding tool. Additional T-Bill issues would be probably primarily or solely covered by Greek banks, since
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Another euro stitch unpicked
Agoraare going to be incredibly tense, there isn’t now. The European Central Bank’s decision on Wednesday... in the short-term by issuing T-Bills, for which Greek banks would probably be the only bidders. A six-month T-Bill issue on Wednesday attracted the lowest bid-to-cover ration since July 2006 as Athens
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