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Recently upgraded Greece will - barring any major surprises - issue its first ever 15-year bond on Tuesday, with the book set to open early in the morning.

The government is waiting for the price of Hellenic Petroleum shares to rise before approving the launch of the process to sell part of the 35 percent stake it controls in the oil company through the stock market.

Greece on Tuesday raised 1.5 billion euros from the reopening of a March 2029 bond. The final yield was 1.5 percent, with bids closing in excess of 5.4 billion euros.

Greece has appointed BNP Paribas , Citi, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and JPMorgan as joint lead managers to reopen an outstanding debt issue due March 2029, it said on Monday.

Athens is taking advantage of record low yields in the euro zone to beef up cash reserves and add liquidity to its shallow bond market.

Every time a prime minister visits New York for the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, attention turns to his meetings with other state leaders as well as with important American businesspeople and funds.

The Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) is considering swapping bonds from the 2012 private sector involvement (PSI) debt easing scheme that did not participate in the 2017 swap, by reopening last March's 10-year bond issue. Sources say that US bank Goldman Sachs will run the project.

National Bank of Greece is eager to make the most of the favorable climate among foreign investors toward the country in the last couple of months, and especially after the election result, proceeding immediately with the issue of a Tier II bond to boost its capital.

Piraeus Bank is on Wednesday opening its book for the issue of a Tier II corporate bond, putting off the process from Tuesday due to the particularly high interest by investors that did not allow for the bank to meet with all interested buyers.
The aim of the Greek lender is to raise 300-350 million euros while offering an interest rate of 9-10 percent.

Huawei Technologies' creator and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, told Bloomberg TV that Beijing's countermeasures against Apple Inc. are unlikely and he will oppose a possible move from Beijing to the iPhone maker.

Answering some calls in China for reprisal measures against Apple, Ren Zhengfei said he would "protest" against any such move if it was taken by the Beijing government.

Warnings from the Bank of Greece and Goldman Sachs over the course of the Greek economy, not to mention international concerns on foreign markets over the raging trade war, led on Wednesday to the complete erasure of the gains recorded by the Athinon Avenue benchmark on Tuesday.