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ThinkstockCan you imagine that the Greek banking sector is being raised by a credit ratings agency? It sounds impossible to imagine if you have been following the story as long as we have. Still,...
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Standard & Poor's has affirmed its CCC rating on National Bank of Greece. The call sounds like it is one of stability on the surface, but S&P's outlook is Negative.
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thinkstockThe capital markets have opened back up to Greece. The struggling, or very struggling, island nation in the eurozone (and one of the PIIGS), has tapped the capital markets for a 3 billion...
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ThinkstockGreece reportedly will announce a long-term bond sale as soon as Wednesday, the first time it has had access to capital markets since March 2010. But the question to ask is, is it too soon?...
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National Bank of Greece is trying to still manage a turnaround. If earnings are a barometer, then the bank could be on the way back up.
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thinkstockIt is really hard to get excited about anything in Greece and the peripheral nations. That has been the mantra for years now, even before the U.S. recession. But maybe all bad things can...
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thinkstockIt seems hard to believe after years of decline, but bad news out of Greece has changed to “less-bad” and then to almost good news. We previously saw that the Greek budget may have a...
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thinkstockShares of National Bank of Greece S.A. (NYSE: NBG) are chugging higher on Thursday. There has not been any direct news out of the company to account for the gain, but the national news in...
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thinkstockGreece and its banks may have found a friend in billionaire investor John Paulson. A report from Reuters has said that Paulson now favors the recapitalized banking sector as a bet on...
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ThinkstockWhich way the future of Greece goes is still up in the air. If you read enough of the financial and political news coming out of and about the European Union and the nations making up the...
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thinkstockStandard & Poor’s has decided that the corporate credit ratings for the National Bank of Greece S.A. (NYSE: NBG) are affirmed at “CCC/C.” What remains a caution is that the...
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ThinkstockThe austerity versus stimulus battle flamed up again as the Greek parliament approved massive layoffs of public workers. Now, the proponents of cost cuts in financially weakened nations...
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thinkstockA review of the Greek economy has concluded that the struggling country needs to make more changes if it is to meet the economic targets that will keep bailout funds flowing. The so-called...
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thinkstockThe ADR shares of National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) are having yet another rough day. News that the nation of Greece may not receive bailout funds is not helping matters for the...
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thinkstockThe short sellers in America were already pounding on the National Bank of Greece S.A. (NYSE: NBG). Just on Wednesday we pointed out that the troubled Greek bank’s American depositary...
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