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Agencies: QE exclusion bad for Greek rating
Excluding Greek bonds from any European Central Bank quantitative easing program would be bad news for the country?s recently upgraded credit rating, the main ratings agencies said.
The ECB is widely expected to announce a large-scale government bond-buying program on Thursday.
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New Democracy responds to opposition statement over port concession
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy party responded on Tuesday to statements made by a candidate for the main opposition SYRIZA party, suggesting a renegotiation of several privatization projects and in particular of the cargo terminal at the country's main port in Piraeus.
Any new Greek government will have to continue reforms, says Juncker
Any new Greek government will have to deliver on the commitments of its predecessors and continue reforms, the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker told Reuters.
His comments are seen as a clear warning to Greece's left-wing Syriza party, which is solidifying its opinion poll lead over the ruling conservatives days before a Jan. 25 election.
ECB holds key to Greek developments
Frankfurt can control the flow of cash in the domestic credit system and therefore the state?s liquidity
By Dimitris Kontogiannis
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Greek central bank asks ECB to allow emergency bank lending line if needed
By George Georgiopoulos
Greece's central bank has moved to protect its banks from any fallout from the coming general election, asking the European Central Bank to approve a stand-by domestic emergency funding line, a Bank of Greece official said on Saturday.
Diminishing Greek bond yield inversion show default fears easing
By John Geddie
Investor concern that a new government may push Greece toward another default appears to have eased over the past week, as a sharp inversion in its borrowing costs diminishes.
Syriza massages foreign policy goals as it smells power
By James G. Neuger & Eleni Chrepa
As it comes closer to gaining power in Greece, the anti-establishment Syriza party that once advocated a pullout from NATO and expulsion of the U.S. Navy from a base in Crete is moving toward the foreign-policy mainstream.
Greece may get debt extension, Rehn says in urging unity
By Jonathan Stearns
Greece is unlikely to win any writedown on debt owed to the euro area and should instead focus on possible relief in the form of longer repayment periods, said Olli Rehn, who helped avert a Greek exit from the European single currency at the height of the financial crisis.
Moody's: 'Grexit' unlikely, less risk of contagion than in 2012 [Update]
Greece remains relatively unlikely to leave the eurozone, ratings agency Moody's said on Wednesday, despite the prospect of an anti-bailout leftist party winning a snap election on Jan. 25.
Greece could exit the euro by accident, warns FinMin
By Marcus Bensasson & Elliott Gotkine
Greece could stumble out of the euro by accident if a new government fails to reach an agreement with international creditors soon after this month?s election, Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis said.