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Greece's investment grade recovery, expected to reduce borrowing costs for businesses while opening the door to a larger investor audience, combined with the start of the ECB's rate-cutting cycle, is accelerating activity for listed companies, supporting new issues of corporate bonds and fresh listings on the Athens Stock Exchange.

The continuation of the economic recovery and Greece's return to investment grade after almost 13 years is what markets expect after the elections.

Athens Stock Exchange Group (HELEX) on Tuesday launched a series of international roadshows to promote listed medium-capitalization companies to European institutional investors for the first time.

The first roadshow took place on Tuesday in Geneva and will be followed by roadshows in Paris (June 22) and Frankfurt (October 31).

Athens Stock Exchange Group (HELEX) is organizing a series of international roadshows to promote listed medium-capitalization companies to European institutional investors for the first time.

The first roasdshow will be held on Tuesday (13 June) in Geneva, to be followed by roadshows in Paris (June 22) and Frankfurt (October 31). 

"We have been engaged with financial markets since 2007 when we were first listed in New York at the Nasdaq stock exchange. Since then we have paid more than $800 million in dividends to our investors" Evangelos Marinakis, the Founder and President of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. said today, on the occasion of the listing of CPLP's bond on the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX).

The argument "we are not selling this country for peanuts" will not hold, because we can actually buy it ourselves, there are 7 million Romanians who are waiting to invest billions of Euro in these state listings and here I am referring to the private pension funds, said, on Tuesday, in a specialty video-conference, Cristian Popa, Board member of the National Bank of Romania (BNR).

Liquidity, measured in terms of the average daily trading value, increased by over 42% at the cumulative level of all types of financial instruments and exceeded RON 62 million (EUR 12.86 million) for the first 11 months of the year, according to a report of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) released on Wednesday.

Greece's stock exchange temporarily suspended trading in OPAP on Monday pending an "important announcement" from Europe's fourth-largest betting firm by revenue.
The stock exchange did not provide any details. 

[Reuters]

Interest in the world's first stock exchange building in the western province of Kütahya's Çavdarhisar district is increasing every day, but to many the historical site is still unknown.

All the parties involved must sit down at the same table to hammer out a new national strategy for developing the capital market, president of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) Lucian Anghel told a specialist event on Monday.