Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-09-16

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

CONTENTS

[01] ASE opening: Marginal decline

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[01] ASE opening: Marginal decline

All individual sector indices were mixed with the biggest gains in Commerce, up 0.68 percent; and Raw Materials, up 0.54 percent.

The biggest losses were in Construction, down 0.91 percent and in Personal Goods, down 0.81 percent.

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks was down 0.03 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index was down 0.26 percent, and the FTSE/ASE-80 small cap index was up 0.12 percent.

Of the stocks traded, 28 were up, 22 were down, and 14 were unchanged.

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[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) review on the debt-battered Greek economy, new testimony before a parliamentary fact-finding commission on the Vatopedi land-swap case critical of former PM Costas Karamanlis, press speculation over Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis' role in the government and the closing of outstanding tax cases mostly dominated the headlines on Thursday in Athens' newspapers.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Athens one of the most expensive cities worldwide".

APOGEVMATINI: "IMF's dramatic report on Greek economy".

AVGHI: "Ten more years of unemployment".

AVRIANI: "New scandal on the horizon", a banner headline alleging kickbacks by Germany's DT multinational.

ELEFTHEROS: "Ragoussis becomes 'Interior Prime Minister'."

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Outrageous: Papandreou delegates powers to Ragoussis".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Send tax-evaders to jail or else you will again burden the many".

ESTIA: "Grotesque situation prevails in ministries - They're continuously changing names, swapping responsibilities".

ETHNOS: "Former minister George Voulgarakis' wife and notary public in of Vatopedi land exchanges, Ekaterini Peleki, points at former PM Costas Karamanlis, in her testimony before parliamentary fact-finding committee".

IMERISSIA: "Post-dated checks a 30-billion-euro bomb".

KATHIMERINI: "Window for extra time - IMF official to markets: If it continues to adhere to Memorandum we will not abandon Greece".

LOGOS: "Fuel market uncontrollable".

NAFTEMPORIKI: "Tax courts via rapid procedures".

RIZOSPASTIS: "Communist Party leader Aleka Papariga: Popular alliance and organising in workplaces, working-class neighbourhoods"

TA NEA: "The draft law for closure of outstanding tax cases".

TO VIMA: "Civil servants' payroll through the sieve".

VRADYNI: "IMF demands new austerity measures".

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