The expected rebalancing of the FTSE Russell index, with the shift of five Greek stocks, sent turnover soaring in the closing auctions on Friday and boosted the benchmark to the extent that it offset all earlier losses and ended up in the black at the end of a week with significant gains.
Greece unexpectedly got to the brink of investment grade on Friday night as DBRS Morningstar upgraded the country’s credit rating to ‘BB high’, from ‘BB’, while reducing its outlook from Positive to Stable.
The Development and Investments Ministry’s bill for the new European Union-subsidized National Strategic Reference Framework, known in Greece as ESPA, was approved in a plenary session on Thursday evening.
Long-jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou added another major title to his list, winning gold at the World Indoor Championships on his 24th birthday.
In the first major war fought on the world’s screens, Vladimir Putin’s speech on Wednesday has already assumed great historical value.
In 1922, Giannis Soumelidis received information from a friend enlisted in the Turkish Army. The content of this message and its exact date remain unknown but, acting on the information, Soumelidis and his family abandoned their work as innkeepers at Larachani in the Pontus region and moved away.
The government is ready to take advantage of the timing favoring the utilization of Greek hydrocarbons after the European Union decision for the rapid disengagement from Russian natural gas and at the same time for the acknowledgement of gas as a green investment.
The panic which appears to be sparked by every Greek-Turkish summit, with critics expressing “concerns” that talks jeopardize the country’s national interests, is not just counterproductive.
The Athens offices of Amazon Web Services (AWS) were inaugurated on Friday, in the presence of US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt, Development and Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis and General Manager of AWS Europe Public Sector Cameron Brooks.