ATHEX: Stocks grow for eleventh week in a row
Friday’s minor losses for the Athens benchmark were not enough to prevent it from registering an 11th consecutive week of growth, a feat last accomplished over 18 years ago.
Friday’s minor losses for the Athens benchmark were not enough to prevent it from registering an 11th consecutive week of growth, a feat last accomplished over 18 years ago.
Regulatory authorities are the state’s eye which secures the public interest in every critical area of the market.
Protests have intensified in Greece days after the country’s deadliest rail disaster, as thousands of students took to the streets in several cities and some protesters clashed with police in Athens.
The number of people killed in rail accidents in the European Union has drastically decreased over the last 10 years, according to Eurostat.
Train services over the weekend will not operate following a decision by railway workers to continue their strike following the Tempi rail disaster.
Every possible avenue will be exhausted to establish what led to the Tempi rail disaster, a member of the special investigative commission appointed by the government has said.
Athina Katsara, a 34-year-old mother of an infant boy, was buried in her home town of Katerini, in the north of the country. Her injured husband was in hospital and unable to attend.
Hussam Naim, a Palestinian surgeon who was on duty at Larissa general hospital on the night of the Tempi rail disaster, has said the scenes facing him reminded him of Gaza.
Students and schoolchildren in various parts of the country have taken to the streets to express their anger and grief at Tuesday’s railway disaster in Tempi. in which at least 57 people, most of them students, lost their lives.
The US Embassy in Athens has issued a “demonstration alert,” advising its citizens “to avoid areas of demonstrations and exercise greater caution around universities, Hellenic Train offices” and other areas.