Bond market indices

The door is now wide open for the entry of quality and long-term investors, who manage trillions of dollars, into the Greek bonds market: Bloomberg Index Services, a global provider of government bond indices, has become the first to include Greek bonds among the elite of the debt markets, announcing that 17 Greek bonds worth 73 billion euros are to be included in its index series as of January

 Government expects to draw up to 3 billion euros from the market at an interest rate of 3.2 to 3.5 percent

By Sotiris Nikas

Three months after Greece’s successful return to the international market, the Finance Ministry is testing investors’ intentions for a second time with the issue of three-year bonds.