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Bookies see comfortable win for SYRIZA, close contest for third place
PoliticsGreek Politicsaspect of the election race and appears to concern two rather than three or four political parties... scenario is SYRIZA gaining more than 33.75 percent of votes (odds at 1.75) with New Democracy winning less than 28.5 percent of votes (odds at 1.75). This suggests a margin in excess of 5 percentage
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Eurosystem funding for Greek banks shoots up by 11.2 bln in December
EconomyMacroeconomyrecorded in February 2012. Following a sharp drop by more than 30 billion euros in the 9-month period... banking sources, local media indicate that the significant increase of more than 11 billion euros... are continuing in January mainly due to money withdrawals from retail accounts rather than money
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Bookies' odds against SYRIZA emerging with majority from Sunday's elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsmajority. They also anticipate a close contest for the third place and believe it is more likely than... -1.40 for no outright majority compared to 2.75 – 3.30 for the winning party gaining more than 150... right power lower than it should be. Betting odds for GD and To Potami provided by Sportingbet stand
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First rise since 2009 for Greek household disposable income in Q3 2014
EconomyMacroeconomytaxation. Since 2009, compensation of employees was reduced by almost 31 percent (more than 6.5 billion..., which corresponds to more than 3.2 billion that are no more available for Greek households... impact of more than 800 million on households’ income. Household final consumption rose by 2.3 percent
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Structural problems and dramatic drop in funding harm mental health care in Greece
Society. Above Bulgaria and Romania in the overall ranking, Greece failed to place higher than 24th... rather than by domestic demand,” it added. There have been pockets of progress, however. Most... than insufficient, understaffed hospital wards is the poor state of community-based facilities
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Greek primary budget surplus halved in Jan as revenues miss target
Economyexpenditure was almost 100 million better than target. A similar pattern was also evident in the budget... billion short of target. Primary expenditure rose 4.9 percent to 3.1 billion, 53 million better than.... As a result, expenditure dropped 9.9 percent to 3.17 billion, almost 100 million lower than target
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Capital controls in Greece? A response to Professor Sinn
Agoraa capital controls regime for Greece, since the cost of a funded capital controls regime is lower than... of Grexit, while they would also be less costly for Greece than Grexit. The EZ has an incentive... writes, the Cyprus bailout cost is not 10 billion but less than 9, as one billion set aside
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Tsipras faces dissent from SYRIZA MPs but serious rift unlikely at this stage
PoliticsGreek Politicsproperly. It is more likely that Tsipras will run the risk of dissent in his party rather than be seen... with a worse deal than the previous coalition. SYRIZA officials have a little time to work on the dissenters within the party, perhaps ensuring that they abstain from the vote on the extension rather than
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Greece's imminent funding problems: All the numbers you need
EconomyProgramme. It is estimated that an amount of more than 800 million euros is held by foreigners that took up about... obligations in the last month of each quarter. Greece has also to pay in March more than 1 billion euros... government and lower-than-expected revenues from the settlement of tax arrears. Since the new
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Primary surplus at 1.24 bln in Feb on lower spending and recovering revenues
Economy, primary expenditure was 591 million better than target, PIB balance was 318 million better than expected, while tax refunds were 145 million higher than target. A broadly similar pattern was also evident... dropped 1.7 percent to 6.31 billion, 591 million better than target. As expected, interest payment
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