Greece

Greece announced it will issue a 30-year bond, the longest-maturity sale since 2008, completing the country’s full return to debt markets.

Acknowledging the current need for their widespread use, The Greek Ministry of Culture is now marketing fabric facemasks inspired by Ancient Greece so that citizens can stay protected from Covid-19 -- while promoting Greek history. The masks, with patterns featuring...

Athens drew €2 billion from international capital markets on Holy Wednesday, following the successful issuance of seven-year syndicated bonds. Greece "has accessed global markets today, through adverse social and economic conditions created globally by the pandemic, and succeeded," Finance Minister...

Greece opened a book-building process for a seven-year syndicated bond on Holy Wednesday. The Greek government ordered Citi, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Nomura and Societe Generale banks to issue the new seven-year bond, as Athens takes action to strengthen...

Greek authorities announced on Sunday that they will impose crowd controls on supermarkets starting Monday to prevent overcrowding and prevent the spread of coronavirus in the country. Speaking to Open TV, Deputy Development Minister Nikos Papathanasis said that security guards...

Greece's economy has slowly but steadily entered the zone of seeing its solvency being upgraded by major global credit rating agencies, after several years of a financial meltdown and harsh conditions. Following the recent upgrades of its solvency and its...

Greece will very soon seek to pump additional money from global markets in an effort to capitalize gains made on the historically-low interest rates that the country has been enjoying over the last several months. Greek authorities have requested the major...

Greece's debt agency announced the country's return to the bond markets on Monday, with a five-year syndicated issue of the financial product. The bond issue will be launched “in the near future, subject to market conditions”, authorities said in a...

Greece on Thursday returned to international capital markets with a seven-year syndicated bond through the launch of a book-building procedure. It is one of three state bond issues scheduled by the Greek government until completion of the current bailout program...

Excellent quality caviar; produced in Epirus, north-western Greece, is the only enterprise of its kind in the country. A company called Thesauri, of the meat production and processing VIKI Group, has pioneered sturgeon farming and caviar production in Greece. It produces...

Greece is currently on a good path and, even though it has not fully overcome the problem, the more pessimistic forecasts of the critics were not borne out, outgoing German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview due...

"Greece can exit the current aid programme in 10 months and be financed independently through the markets, if the government adheres to the agreed reforms to strengthen growth and employment," Klaus Regling, head of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM),...

Greece has made a return to the financial markets, by selling €3 billion worth of its new five-year bond, at a yield (or interest rate) or 4.625%. That’s lower than the 4.95% that Greece last sold five-year bonds for, in...

Greece sold debt to private investors for the first time in three years, an upbeat Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hailed what he called a "special day." At his meeting in Athens with EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici, Tsipras that “it is...

Greece's return to tapping the international bond markets for the first time since 2014 is met with mixed remarks from the international press. In its electronic version, German magazine Spiegel reports on Greece's test run on markets as follows: "Return...