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Employment and wage data explains why Greeks struggle to see growth dividends
Agoramarket faces challenges, particularly for women and youth. Despite a 1.1 pps increase... in total - earn up to 800 euros. Some 23 pct of workers are earning between 800 and 1,000 euros... of the total. At the same time, high value-added jobs with high skills like technology stand at just 3.4
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Fiscal data impressive but details suggest caution still required
EconomyMacroeconomysurplus of 11.4 billion euros, or 4.8 pct of GDP, while the general government budget was in a total... the central government, local governments, and social security funds, all of which were in total surplus... and social security funds at 1.1 billion euros. Greece’s fiscal picture has been consistently improving
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Imports soar by 7 pct in March as exports rise for first time since Sept
Economy, the 12-month trailing index points to a 3.3 and 2.2 percent drop in imports and exports respectively... the respective total exports figure down 5.9 percent. The change in imports excluding oil products... quarter of 2014. Total imports fell by 4.9 percent in 2013, while exports eased marginally by 0.2 percent
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Greek central government debt inches down to 320.42 bln in Q1
Economywith FSM loans at 211.86 billion, corresponding to 66.1 percent of total, long term bonds at 74.48 billion (23.2 percent of total) and T-Bills at 14.99 billion (4.7 percent). Disbursements from... (OSE) (6.06 billion) and Attiko Metro (2.2 billion) and 1 billion to extra budgetary funds
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How Greek banks moved into a new era
Agora. They successfully raised a total of 8.31 billion (Alpha 1.2 billion, Eurobank 2.86, National 2.5..., the four banks had accumulated LLRs of 43 billion corresponding to 16.6 percent of the total loan book... in Alpha and Piraeus currently stand at 2.2 billion and 400 million respectively. The banks’ stock
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Snap elections in Greece bring state's liquidity constraints into focus
Economy. These mainly comprise of interest payments (2.2 billion) and IMF repayments estimated at 1.6 billion. On top... as an additional amount of nearly 2 billion expected from SMP profits. These total 7.3 billion euros. Under... include: a) Short-term borrowing from general government bodies, which total 9 billion. However, 7
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SYRIZA's poll lead consistent but parliamentary majority elusive
PoliticsGreek PoliticsND 28 Potami 4.5 G Dawn 4.2 PASOK 4 KKE 3.7 Ind Grks 2.2 Papandreou 1.5 Other 4.4 Undecided 9.6..., if the total percentage of the vote that goes to parties which do not make it into Parliament reaches 4... considerably. A total of 9 percent going to non-parliamentary parties would lead to SYRIZA or New
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Where next for Greece's troubled privatisation programme under SYRIZA?
Economyfor a total consideration of 915 million euros was signed on November 14 and the payment is due after... of regional airports are profitable and in total do not burden the public coffers. In the reform list... European Commission review report on Greece. It foresaw revenues of 1.5 billion euros in 2014 and 2.2
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Newsletter 22 - 03/04/2015
After successfully covering its funding needs in March, which, at 2.2 billion euros (excluding... to local media, Chinese funds participated in two of the three T-Bill issues in March for a total... received a total of 867 million from the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF). In particular
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Alpha Bank reports lower losses of 115.8 mln in Q1 2015
EconomyBanking-February). Total ELA funding cost stands at 200 basis points (bps) compared to just 5 bps for ECB funding..., NPLs reached 21.3 billion (of which 18.2 billion in Greece) with total provision stock at 13.4... deposit outflows of 6.6 billion and lower interbank funding by 2.2 billion. The bank disclosed
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