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  1. Eurozone periphery condemned to low wages, demand, EC study suggests
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    Economy

    consolidations across the 17-nation bloc. Core countries refused to even leverage negative real interest rates... in an environment with a deflationary bias, with interest rates that historically have the tendency

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  2. When will Greek banks operate as credit institutions again?
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    Agora

    of credit and affordable borrowing rates are handled in a very restrictive manner by domestic lenders. But it is not only the exorbitantly high interest rates for funding that serves like a millstone around

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  3. Nobody has less confidence in their government than the Greeks, OECD finds
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    Society

    . This is one of the highest rates in the OECD. In terms of salaries, the researchers found...,” added the authors. 3) Women in government The OECD found that Greece has one of the lowest rates

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  4. IMF report sees a number of risks lying ahead for Greece

    EconomyProgramme

    fiscal adjustment with tax rates already high, discretionary spending compressed and without..., streamlining VAT reduced rates and setting up a sufficiently high registration threshold, Additional

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  5. Piraeus Bank reports net profit of 164.3 mln in Q2
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    EconomyBanking

    funding cost, also involving a 26 bps drop in time deposit rates, and higher loan NII. June time deposit rates show there is difference of 35 bps between the front and the total book, suggesting further

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  6. Greek debt: A case of learned helplessness?
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    Agora

    chose punishing, or “non-concessionary,” interest rates at the start of the program. It charged... exacerbated the debt dynamics. The rates that were so punishing they pushed the budget’s interest payments

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  7. Troika review begins with fiscal targets and tax breaks in focus
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    ruling. c) Retaining the solidarity tax for at least one more year albeit with lower rates, according... in the corporate tax rate (from 20 to 15 percent) and the solidarity levy as well as a cut in the tax rates

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  8. Newsletter 3 - 14/11/2014

    Newsletters

    , changing the terms and conditions for retirement, increasing the VAT rates in specific sectors... speaking, Greece continues to be in recession. The negative growth rates of -1.1 percent in the first

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  9. Greek travel receipts continued upward course in October, rising by 4.6 pct
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    rates recorded in the preceding months. The increase in travel receipts is entirely attributed... dropped by 8.1 percent mainly reflecting the negative growth rates recorded as of August

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  10. Contraction in Greek credit eases slightly to 3 percent in November
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    , broadly similar to the contraction rates recorded since May 2014. Balances fell by 0.4 percent MoM... are the key drivers of the prevailing negative credit rates. Banking sources have indicated that the outcome

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