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Greek trade deficit widens by 29.4 pct in July as import rate soars
EconomyMacroeconomydeficit’s growth rate is 10 percentage points lower than that of the headline figure at 19.4 percent... was more than double compared to the headline figure at 23.9 percent. The geographical breakdown
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Standoff over civil servants in Greece bears hallmarks of pre-election clash
PoliticsGreek Politicsor those who have committed offences while working in the public sector. Already this year more than 550 civil servants have been sacked after being found guilty of crimes. This is more than double
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Value of HFSF participation in Greek banks falls to 17 billion
EconomyBankingperiod reflects a loss of 4.96 billion euros in Q2 more than offsetting the profit of 1.45 billion...) injected in Alpha, NBG and Piraeus in 2013. However, HFSF has received until now less than 350 million
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Greece's troika talks begin with apparent deal on 2015 surplus
EconomyProgrammethan the 2.3 to 2.5 percent the MoF initially proposed and the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy (MTFS... a primary surplus of 1.7 percent, which is slightly higher than the EAP target of 1.5 percent
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Samaras seeks vote of confidence and moment of history
Agorafew days that the New Democracy-PASOK administration was counting its remaining days, rather than... legislation to Parliament with more chances of it passing. More than anything else, though, it gives Samaras
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‘We’re dying to pay our taxes’
Agorawas much worse than expected. Within months, the European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF..., but are far fewer and much smaller than anything seen in 2010, 2011 or 2012. Much of that anger against
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What would a clean bailout exit for Greece mean in numbers?
Agoralargest creditor. As part of the SMP program it accumulated more than 55 billion euros of Greek... as normal and interest payments have an estimated budget impact of less than 500 million euros
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Greek coalition stands by early bailout exit plans despite fresh blows on bond, stock markets
PoliticsGreek Politics. With the Greek stock market falling by more than 2 percent and the yield on 10-year bond rising above 9... percentage point higher than yesterday. Yields of shorter maturities rose even more sharply, with both
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In survival bid, coalition seeks to ease taxpayer burden, secure early bailout exit
PoliticsGreek Politicsin up to 100 tranches. For debts of more than 15,000 euros, up to 72 instalments will be provided... on surcharges. The annual interest rate for the debt is set at 4.56 percent from more than 8 percent
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Alpha Bank nine-month profits at 110.3 mln, NPL ratio at 33.6 pct
EconomyBankingin 9M 2014 as well as deferred tax asset (DTA) of more than 600 and 400 million for the two periods... percent QoQ to 491 million euros, reflects higher deposit NII and lower funding cost more than
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