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Economic sentiment edges up in March, consumer confidence deteriorates for third straight month
EconomyMacroeconomy, albeit at a slower pace by 1.1 points in March following a decrease of 5.5 points in February. Following... successive month by 4.7 points to 6.6, which is the highest reading since January 2015. The retail... confidence indicator (+1.1 points). On the flipside, the construction confidence indicator has dropped by 3.9
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Newsletter 122 - 09/06/2017
and 2020. General govt primary cash surplus edges up OECD expects economy to grow by 1.1 pct this year... to return, large uncertainties remain. OECD estimates that GDP will rebound 1.1 percent in 2017... deficit grew by 6.6 percent up to the end of April. Accommodation and food services turnover rises
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Newsletter 135 - 13/10/2017
this week - that there will be an overall deficit of -1.7 percent of GDP this year and -1.1 percent... the goods’ and services’ indices advanced by 1.1 and 1 percent, respectively. The harmonised index... production index (+6.6 percent) and the manufacturing production index (+3.1 percent). In contrast
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Draft budget contains two scenarios on pensions, charts course within agreed fiscal targets
EconomyMacroeconomyin the MTFS assumptions. Private consumption is expected to grow by 1.1 percent, from 1 percent... of the alternative scenario is 1.1 billion euros: 335 million from scraping pension cuts and countermeasures... expected to reach 6.6 billion euros, from 5.5 billion euros this year.
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Budget primary surplus at 3.16 bln in December, missing target for full year by 443 mln
EconomyMacroeconomybillion euros and was below target by 611 million. Net revenues came to 50.96 billion euros, under... expenditure came to 44.20 billion, below target by 611 million euros. Interest payments declined YoY
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Coalition sets bar low for presidential vote, opts for pre-election rhetoric
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government appears to have set 165 as its target for the number of MPs’ votes it hopes to garner in the first presidential ballot on Wednesday. The number has appeared in several reports citing government sources and appears a logical goal in the wa...
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Greece, eurozone edge closer on pensions and fiscal gap but IMF keeps bar high
EconomyProgrammeThe Eurogroup Working Group held on Monday failed to narrow the differences on the fiscal gap foreseen by the Greek authorities, the European institutions and the IMF. Thus, the date of the mission chiefs’ return to Athens still remains unidentified and...
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Producer prices rise marginally by 0.1 pct YoY as all components bar energy increase
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s Producer Price Index (PPI) had a marginal rise in November, with an increase of 0.1 percent year-on-year (YoY), after a decrease of 1.4 percent in October, ELSTAT data showed on Tuesday. This was the first positive reading after four consecutiv...
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Self-employed paying less for social security contributions, Labour ministry reports
EconomyFeatures. The average monthly contribution for farmers rose by 6.6 percent (from 87 euros to 95 euros), due...-employed workers and reports of such workers deregistering from the status of “self-employed” en masse... Engineers and Public Contractors Pension Fund (TSMEDE) fund compared to 64.2 percent in 2017
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Newsletter 10 - 09/01/2015
figure is the lowest reading since August 2012. The drop is mainly attributed to a 1.1 percent month... by the Interior Ministry. For citizens who are prevented from voting in their home constituency
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