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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-05-12
CONTENTS
[01] Greek bond market closing report
[02] ADEX closing report
[03] Operation open beachfront
[01] Greek bond market closing report
(ANA-MPA) -- Turnover in the Greek electronic secondary market improved
slightly to 83 million euros, of which 48 million were sell orders and
the remaining 35 million euros were buy orders. The three-year
benchmark bond (March 20, 2015) was the most heavily traded security
with a turnover of 17 million euros. The yield spread between the
10-year Greek and German benchmark bonds shrank to 441 basis points,
with the Greek bond yielding 7.34 pct and the German Bund 2.93 pct.
In interbank markets, interest rates were largely unchanged. The
12-month Euribor rate was 1.22 pct, the six-month rate 0.95 pct, the
three-month rate 0.64 pct and the one-month rate 0.40 pct.
[02] ADEX closing report
(ANA-MPA) -- The June contract on the FTSE 20 index was trading at
-1.61 pct in the Athens Derivatives Exchange on Wednesday, with
turnover a low 65.801 million euros. Volume on the Big Cap index
totaled 12,560 contracts worth 53.275 million euros, with 24,895 open
positions in the market.
Volume in futures contracts on equities totaled 14,089 contracts worth
12.526 million euros, with investment interest focusing on National
Bankâs contracts (6,314), followed by Eurobank (707), MIG (300), OTE
(791), OPAP (564), Piraeus Bank (808), Alpha Bank (1,142), Mytilineos
(310), Cyprus Bank (592) and ATEbank (257).
[03] Operation open beachfront
(ANA-MPA) -- Prime Minister George Papandreou was present on Wednesday
morning at the demolition of an illegal structure on the southeastern
Athens coast of Alimos, a structure that housed a well-known summer
nightclub.
Papandreou and Environment Tina Birbili were on the spot as bulldozers
razed the "Fantasia" nightclub, judged as a highly symbolic gesture in
the campaigm to demolish whatever illegal structures and illicit
business blocking access to Athens' closest beaches. (ANA-MPA)
Caption: ANA-MPA photo / P. SAITAS
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