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Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-07-11Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>CONTENTS
[01] Greek bond market closing report(ANA-MPA) -- Market concern that a Greek debt crisis could expand to Italy negatively affected sentiment in the domestic electronic secondary bond market on Monday, with the yield spread between the 10-year Greek and German benchmark bonds widening further to 14.05 percent. The Greek bond yielded 16.61 pct and the German Bund 2.66 pct. There was no turnover in the market for the second consecutive session.In interbank markets, interest rates moved higher. The 12-month rate was 2.19 pct, the six-month rate 1.81 pct, the three-month rate was 1.60 pct and the one-month rate 1.43 pct. © ANA-MPA SA. Intellectual rights and copyright belong to the ANA-MPA S.A. Reproduction of ANA-MPA content by visitors of this website is strictly forbidden. More details on the subscriber's page of ANA-MPA | Subscription request form [02] Central gov't H1 deficit up(ANA-MPA) -- The central government cash deficit widened to 13.152 billion euros in the first six months of 2011, up from 11.450 billion euros in the corresponding period of 2010, the Bank of Greece announced on Monday.The central bank, in a monthly report, said ordinary budget revenue fell to 22.032 billion euros in the January-June period, from 23.203 billion euros in the same period last year. Ordinary budget expenditure increased to 33.420 billion euros from 30.145 billion euros in January-June 2010, the central bank said in the report. (ANA-MPA) © ANA-MPA SA. Intellectual rights and copyright belong to the ANA-MPA S.A. Reproduction of ANA-MPA content by visitors of this website is strictly forbidden. More details on the subscriber's page of ANA-MPA | Subscription request form [03] Stocks end sharply lowerGreek stocks came under strong pressure during the first trading session of the week at the Athens Stock Exchange on Monday, hit by a negative climate in other European markets. The composite index of the market dropped 2.58 pct to end at 1,218.88 points, with turnover soaring to 473.913 million euros, boosted by the transfer of a 10 pct equity stake of OTE to Deutsche Telekom.The Greek state transferred 49,015,038 OTE shares to the German group at a price of 7.99 euros per share. The Big Cap index dropped 3.48 pct, the Mid Cap index fell 2.62 pct and the Small Cap index ended 3.77 pct lower. Hellenic Petroleum (0.79 pct), Viohalco (0.47 pct) and Coca-Cola 3E (0.16 pct) were top gainers among blue chip stocks, while Cyprus Bank (8.33 pct), Eurobank (7.91 pct), Marfin Popular Bank (6.90 pct) and National Bank (5.56 pct) suffered losses. The Oil (0.32 pct) and Food (0.05 pct) sectors were the only ones to score gains, while Banks (5.84 pct), Health (5.65 pct) and Technology (5.16 pct) suffered the heaviest percentage losses of the day. Broadly, decliners led advancers by 105 to 39 with another 48 issues unchanged. Sanyo Hellas (14.29 pct), Mouzakis (12.5 pct) and VIS (9.09 pct) were top gainers, while Euromedica (14.29 pct), Vovos (13.64 pct) and Progressive (11.76 pct) were top losers. © ANA-MPA SA. Intellectual rights and copyright belong to the ANA-MPA S.A. Reproduction of ANA-MPA content by visitors of this website is strictly forbidden. More details on the subscriber's page of ANA-MPA | Subscription request form Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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