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News of Greece
ON THIS DAY: Mido edges Robben
On April the 3rd 2002, an inspirational Mido scored a brace for Ajax in a thrilling 4-3 Eredivisie win over Groningen. A Groningen side including Arjen Robben took the lead when the Dutch ace set up Sander van Gessel early on, but Mido equalized with his first of the game before the break. The (...)

03 - 04 - 2013
Greek unemployment hits 26% in fourth quarter
Greek unemployment climbed to 26 percent of the workforce in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with 20.7 percent in the corresponding period a year earlier, the state statistics agency said on Thursday. The jobless rate was 24.8 percent in the third quarter, the national statistics authority Ase (...)

14 - 03 - 2013
Greece: Farmers to start highway blockades
Farming associations say they will launch a protest campaign across Greece, blocking highways for an hour each day, to express their opposition to new tax hikes imposed under the country's austerity measures. The roadblocks, planned mostly in central and northern Greece, are due to start Monday at (...)

11 - 02 - 2013
Greece raises electricity prices by up to 15 pct
Greece raised electricity prices for households by up to 15 percent this year to help state-controlled power company PPC cover costs for transmission rights, the government said on Sunday. The debt-laden country increased its regulated power prices last year as well to reflect the true cost of (...)

14 - 01 - 2013
Greek Parliament Passes New Tax Increases
The Greek parliament has approved a series of unpopular tax rises aimed at boosting revenue in line with Athens' commitments to international creditors. The measures, approved overnight, introduce a new top tax rate of 42% for Greeks earning more than 42,000 euros (£34,700; $56,000) a (...)

12 - 01 - 2013
Dollar Drifts Higher Amid Fiscal-Cliff Concerns
The dollar edged higher in Asian trading hours on Wednesday, with the prospect of large-scale U.S. tax hikes and spending cuts sending investors into safer investment harbors. Tuesday saw Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid say that there had been “little progress" made toward reaching a deal on the (...)

28 - 11 - 2012
Greek debt deal sends world shares higher
European shares climbed to near a three-week high and safe haven German bonds fell on Tuesday, after global lenders agreed to reduce Greek debt and release loans to keep the economy afloat. After 12 hours of talks, they decided steps to cut Greek debt to 124 percent of gross domestic product by (...)

27 - 11 - 2012
Gold Meanders Around $1,750, With Eyes On Europe
Gold prices struggled to hold their ground above the $1,750-an-ounce level Monday as the U.S. dollar strengthened amid caution over developments in Europe. The yellow metal's December futures slipped $3, or 0.2%, to $1,748.40, but were restricted to a narrow $5 dollar range in electronic (...)

26 - 11 - 2012
Euro Falls Below $1.27 Amid Greek Uncertainty
Concerns surrounding Greece's fiscal crisis sent the euro below the $1.27 handle to hit a two-month low against the dollar Tuesday. The euro fell to $1.2683 during Asia hours, down from $1.2711 in late North American trade. The decline came after euro-zone finance ministers failed to reach (...)

13 - 11 - 2012
U.S. Stock Futures Inch Up; Data, ECB Await
U.S. stockmarket futures inched cautiously higher on Thursday, as investors remained on edge after fiscal-cliff worries triggered a post-election plunge for Wall Street the prior day. Asia stocks tumbled in the wake of those losses. Weekly jobless and trade-deficit numbers, along with an (...)

08 - 11 - 2012
Dollar Index Back Over 80 After A Month
The dollar advanced Wednesday to trade back over the 80 mark for the first time in a month, with investors once again showing a preference for so-called safe-haven assets. The ICE dollar index , which measures the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, reached 80.140 during Asian (...)

10 - 10 - 2012
Greek PM: Greece can survive one more month
Greece will run out of money at the end of November if it doesn't receive the next planned installment of its bailout loans, the country's prime minister has said. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he's confident that the money will arrive on time, but in an interview with the German daily (...)

05 - 10 - 2012
Credit Agricole Says Emporiki Sale Talks "Very Advanced"
Talks to sell Credit Agricole's Greek bank Emporiki are likely to be completed in the next few weeks, the French bank's chief executive said in a radio interview on Thursday. "We're in very advanced talks with buyers who have made firm offers," Jean-Paul Chifflet said on RTL radio, adding that the (...)

27 - 09 - 2012
Europe Stocks Off On Greece Concerns; Banks Drop
European stock markets dropped in early action on Monday, as worries over Greece returned to the spotlight, after German magazine Der Spiegel reported that the country faces a 20 billion euros ($26 billion) budget shortfall. The Stoxx Europe 600 index fell 0.4% to 274.75. Fugro NV jumped 7.2% as it (...)

24 - 09 - 2012
Impact of war on language (177) Prosthetics in Mythology (ii)
Other myths are concerned with the categories of the natural and the supernatural, and employ a bodily vocabulary of missing, or extra, body parts, and creatures whose identity hovers between human and beast, mortal and immortal, physical and spiritual. The winged angel, the centaur, the griffin, (...)

11 - 09 - 2012
Europe Stocks Open Lower, Led By ING, BG Group
European stock markets opened lower on Wednesday as investors consolidated recent gains, and after Standard & Poor's Ratings Services downgraded its outlook on Greece to negative from stable. The Stoxx Europe 600 index fell 0.2% to 268.21, with shares of ING Groep NV down 1.6% after the bank (...)

08 - 08 - 2012
Greek army chief resigns, cites 'ethics, dignity'
Greece's army chief of staff has unexpectedly resigned hours before a top government meeting on military policy, citing reasons of "ethics and dignity." An Army statement says Lieutenant General Constantinos Ziazias stepped down at 2 am local time Wednesday. It says his resignation was for "reasons (...)

25 - 07 - 2012
Three Greek Banks Eye Acquiring Crédit Agricole's Greek Unit
Greece's three biggest lenders – National Bank of Greece, Alpha Bank and Eurobank EFG have shown interest in buying Credit Agricole SA's (ACA) Greek unit. Crédit Agricole invited local banks to submit offers for a majority stake in Emporiki earlier this month as fears mounted of a run on Greek (...)

30 - 06 - 2012
Greek Finance Minister To Resign
Greek Finance Minister Vassilios Rapanos will resign from that post, the Associated Press reported Monday. Though no reason was given, Rapanos was rushed to a hospital Friday, suffering from dizziness, severe abdominal pain and nausea. Rapanos, who had previously served as chairman of the National (...)

25 - 06 - 2012
Greek party says bailout issues hold up coalition deal
Greek political leaders have yet to find common ground over an unpopular bailout and a coalition deal may not be struck until later in the week, the leader of a small moderate leftist party said on Tuesday. "There will be a government but I don't know if it will be formed by tonight. I believe we (...)

19 - 06 - 2012
Deposits Return To Greek Banks After Elections
Deposits are trickling back to Greek banks after a conservative victory in Sunday's election assuaged fears the country was set to crash out of the euro, several Greek bankers said on Tuesday. Panicked Greeks who had withdrawn up to 800 million euros from major banks daily in the run-up to Sunday's (...)

19 - 06 - 2012
Greece's New Democracy Leader Wins Elections
Greece's pro-bailout New Democracy party has narrowly won the country's parliamentary elections by securing 29.7 percent of the vote, the Interior Ministry says. The anti-bailout far left Syriza party garnered 26.9 percent of the ballots to come in second in the Sunday elections, the ministry said. (...)

18 - 06 - 2012
Euro Turns Down, Falls Below $1.25
The euro turned down on Monday, falling under $1.25 as equities extended their losses and Treasury bonds rose more on worries about Greece and the lack of details about Spain's weekend bailout. The euro EURUSD -1.07% fell back to $1.2494 from $1.2512 late Friday in North American trading. It rose (...)

11 - 06 - 2012
Spain's Manufacturing Sector drops to 45.1
The rate of contraction in Spain's manufacturing sector was worse than that of Greece in May, according to a business survey. Markit's euro zone manufacturing purchasing managers' index for the whole euro zone dropped to 45.1 from 45.9 in April. Any figure below 50 suggests a contraction in the (...)

01 - 06 - 2012
Radical anti-bailout left regains Greek poll lead
A new survey indicates that Greece's radical left Syriza party, which opposes the loan-dependent country's bailout commitments, has regained the lead in opinion polls ahead of national elections on June 17. The VPRC poll for Epikaira magazine published Wednesday gives Syriza 30 percent of the (...)

30 - 05 - 2012
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