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Eurogroup clears next bailout tranches for Greece, sets new goals
EconomyProgrammeemphasis was made on the liberalisation of transport and rental markets as well as the opening up... to tap market with a 3-5 year bond issue up to 5 billion euros by the end of April, the first issue
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Greece poised to build on investor sentiment with return to bond markets
Economythe return to markets was being lined up before or after Easter. In an interview with Reuters... issue for an amount up to 5 billion euros. The transaction follows Ireland’s 10-year syndicated bond
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Are investors getting a bargain with Eurobank?
Agorato a 6-month lock-up period and have also declared their intention to actively participate in Eurobank... to a 6-month lock-up period if this situation arises. The HFSF became Eurobank’s dominant shareholder
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National Bank follows other Greek lenders' by opting for capital increase
EconomyBankingAs had been rumoured, National Bank of Greece’s board (NBG) decided on April 16 to call an Extraordinary General Meeting for May 10 to approve a capital increase of up to 2.5 billion euros. NBG... requirements through a minority (up to 40 percent) stake sale of its Turkish unit Finansbank. Nevertheless
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SYRIZA stumbles again on way to May elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Thrace. This is not the first time during the build-up to the May campaigns that SYRIZA has found... to have encountered problems in drawing up its candidate lists but it has managed to make all its
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Greece's primary surplus: Much ado about nothing?
AgoraThere has been some confusion about Greece's fiscal statistics this week after the size of the country's primary surplus was confirmed. This is an attempt to clear up some of the misunderstanding... reservations about the Greek figures, unlike during the build-up to the crisis. The following two
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Tension builds in Greek coalition and with SYRIZA as elections near
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy and SYRIZA has opened up after veteran leftist MP Manolis Glezos raised new doubts about whether... a weakness for the party despite Alexis Tsipras’s efforts to clear up the party’s position months
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Golden Dawn to compete in EP elections but its longer term future is unclear
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOne of the unknowns going into the May 25 European Parliament elections in Greece has been cleared up: Golden Dawn will take part in the contest. The Supreme Court decided over the weekend... for alleged criminal activities, had set up an alternative party (National Dawn) that would have
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Five things to take away from the first round of Greek local elections
PoliticsGreek Politics, this remains a tall order. 2. New Democracy slips up The tactics chosen by New Democracy... showing from his movement could draw attention away from a SYRIZA victory, with discussions opening up
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National Bank starts 2014 posting net profit of 181 mln in Q1
EconomyBanking(up 25 percent) and receding impairment losses (down 15 percent). Even excluding several positive... points (bps) offset by higher deposit margins (up 20 bps). As result, Greek net interest margin (NIM
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