ATHEX: Index rises to highest point in over 10 months
The Greek stock market completed an entire week of growth, as Thursday’s session was the fifth in succession with the benchmark in the black, climbing this time above the 950-point mark.
The Greek stock market completed an entire week of growth, as Thursday’s session was the fifth in succession with the benchmark in the black, climbing this time above the 950-point mark.
What is the Bank of Greece’s biggest concern? That reaching investment grade has drifted further away and that he time of abundant, cheap money has given way to an era of high interest rates and limited liquidity.
The National Gallery has put together a special, two-part exhibition dedicated to the heroes of the Greek War of Independence.
Turkey’s highest court on Thursday ordered a temporary freeze on the funds of the country’s pro-Kurdish party as it mulls whether to disband it over accusations of links to Kurdish militants.
The Parthenon Sculptures could be “homeward bound,” according to the lead article in the London “Times” on Thursday. The editorial said there were “signs” that the British Museum’s chairman, George Osborne, may be close to announcing a compromise that will allow the sculptures to return to Athens on an open-ended loan.
Health authorities on Thursday announced that 141 patients with Covid-19 and three with flu died in the week from December 26 to January 1.
A Coast Guard patrol boat was harassed by a Turkish offshore vessel on Thursday morning off the Dodecanese island of Farmakonisi, the coast guard has said.
Without having planned it, Greece and Turkey will be marching to the pace imposed by each country’s upcoming general elections in the first half of this year.
Greece is changing its entry rules for travellers from China and will in future require pre-departure Covid testing in the wake of a surge of Covid cases in that country.
Fourteen candidates formally joined the race on Thursday to become Cyprus’s next president in an election next month dominated by the island’s decades-old division, irregular migration and corruption scandals.