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  1. Newsletter 105 - 03/02/2017

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    companies and 8.05 billion state-controlled companies and local government. Overall, the total... on Thursday. In addition, a sharper drop in overnight interest rates led the weighted average rate on all new deposits down by 3 bps to 0.32 percent, a new, 14-year low. The interest rates in corporate

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  2. Newsletter 106 - 10/02/2017

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    will be eligible for QE, which is very important for lowering interest rates, not only for us in terms... in tax rates. The fund also underlined the need for renewed efforts to combat tax evasion, to address... and ANFA profits and locking in the loan interest rates below 1.5 percent. 2 Unemployment remains stable

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  3. BoG sees chance of normality returning if review concludes swiftly
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    in the fourth quarter of 2016, with the total stock edging down by 1.3 billion to 106.3 billion... effective workout solutions leading to higher cure rates coupled with write-offs, BoG said. However... lending rates, capital controls and market distortions particularly in the electricity market

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  4. Central Athens shop closures at six-year low, mixed picture in other commercial centres
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    the March 2017 survey’s total of 26.3 percent. For Piraeus, the closure rate was 34 percent, down..., closure rates were highest on Charilaou Trikoupi (42.7 percent), Sophocleous (38.5 percent... closure rates tended to be clustered around areas of the city which have been economically depressed

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  5. Greek debt management agency sees Eurogroup debt deal favourably
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    . Equally importantly, interest rate risks are contained. Only 49 percent of the total debt portfolio is in variable interest rates thanks to the short-term measures of last year and its own fixed rates issues over the last 12 months. Greece is also shielded against interest rate risks thanks

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  6. For better or worse: Greece's bailout exit deja vu
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    to the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund disbursing almost 10 billion euros in total. The European... Hardouvelis, argued that Greece could get similar borrowing rates from the market to those of the IMF... tax rates and investment spending if targets were beaten. All crisis governments had first-hand

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  7. New Democracy tax pledges put spotlight on available fiscal space
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    million euros. The reductions planned to income tax are estimated at a total of around 500 million... and that will lead to debt sustainability. This could lead to even lower market rates.” Regling underlined... think it is fair to say that tax rates in Greece are high,” he said. “So lowering some tax rates

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  8. Economic diversification vital to Greece's post-coronavirus future
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    will have significant microeconomic implications on wages, disposable incomes, saving rates... prices has seen tanker rates boom, at least short term, for operators and brokers, bulk shipping rates... to be a valuable export industry at 4.3 per cent of total exports (EUR 1.4bn) in 2018, yet it should not go

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  9. Fitch improves outlook to positive, sees investment grade hinging on fiscal performance and banks
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    in full and the prepayment of the 2022 and 2023 instalments of the GLF loans, for a total exercise... and external debt. There are mitigating factors against the stock of debt, with concessional rates that lead to an interest to revenues of 5.6 pct, compared to 9.7 pct of ‘BB’ peers, mostly fixed rates debt

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  10. Where is Odysseus? Part 1 - Demographics

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    to borrow, free money provided by others (EU grants), continued low interest rates (ECB), and how many... crisis of 2010, which led to a reduction in population as birth rates dropped and a rising number... a level deeper and see how many people out of the total population might be able to work. The first step

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