Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-11-13

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Athens Stock Exchange : Decline

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[01] Athens Stock Exchange : Decline

Individual sector indices were moving mostly downward, with the biggest gains in Insurance, up 5.16 percent; Travel & Recreation, up 2.91 percent and Telecommunications, up 1.93 percent.

The heaviest losses were in Food & Beverage, down 4.39 percent; Banks, down 3.42 percent; Oil & Gas, down 3.20 percent; and Construction, down 1.82 percent.

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks was down 2.66 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index was down 1.98 percent, and the FTSE/ASE-80 small cap index was up 0.12 percent.

Of the stocks moved, 50 were up, 130 were down, and 39 were unchanged.

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

The early general elections rumors and the govenment's measures to combat the financial crisis dominated the headlines on Thursday in Athens' newspapers.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS : "Inner Cabinet decides to give cash to farmers".

APOGEVMATINI: "Shame on four schools that refused to enrol pupils suffering from diabetes".

AVGHI: "Money for society not for bankers -Mockery with the pseudo-reduction in bank interest rates".

AVRIANI: "Former Prime Minister Costas Simitis confirms his 'divorce' with main opposition PASOK - Why the PASOK leadership is worried about high ranking cadres of the modernizing wing's movements".

CHORA: "Rage against the banks - Consumers' reactions multiply over the excessive cost of bank loans".

ELEFTHEROS: "Everybody against the government - They are looking for those responsible for the decline in the party's popularity".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Reactions over the bank loan contracts' fine print".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Banks and interest rates beyond control".

ESTIA: "Economy's domino - The dangers are visible in Greece".

ETHNOS: "Non-ending operetta in Public Power Corporation (PPC)".

KATHIMERINI: "The financial crisis worries the Greeks - Opinion polls indicate intense people's displeasure on government's handling of banks".

LOGOS: "The government exorcises 'expelled' New Democracy member and MP Petros Tatoulis and early general elections ".

NIKI: "The Chinese water torture - The government sinking the country in a bottomless quagmire".

RIZOSPASTIS: "Not a single Greek ship in Somalia - Government prepares an imperialistic foothold on the eastern African coasts".

TA NEA: "Household's eight counterattacks against banks' tricks".

TO VIMA: "Prime Minister Costas Karamanlais will announce new 'life belt' measures in the following week - Freezing of debts to the State".

VRADYNI: "PASOK sinks in Vistonida lake - Revelations of Simitis government involvement in the Vatopedi monastery land exchanges made in the parliamentary fact finding commission".

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