Financial markets

 Foreign banks and stockbrokerages are avoiding making transactions through domestic trading firms

By Anestis Dokas & Yiannis Papadoyiannis

By Vassilis Karamanis

Greek banks are increasingly being hampered from trading currencies, one of most liquid markets, as international dealers cut back credit lines and costs soar, according to people with knowledge of the trades.

By Roula Salourou

The Finance Ministry is locked in a constant battle to make sure that it has the necessary liquidity for the unhindered payment of salaries and pensions, despite any technical or other problems.

By Lukanyo Mnyanda

Giving away your money doesn?t mean losing it these days.

Investors who held shorter-dated European debt have managed to eke out a positive return in 2015, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. That was even as price increases pushed yields in Germany and Austria below zero.

By Prokopis Hatzinikolaou & Evgenia Tzortzi

The Finance Ministry has already used 1.9 billion euros from the cash reserves of general government entities at the Bank of Greece or in state securities to ease the government?s liquidity problems and pay salaries, pensions and the state?s obligations to the country?s creditors.

Short-dated Greek yields edged up on Friday, while 10-year yields were down 11 basis points at 11.04 percent on persistent uncertainty over whether Greece?s international creditors would accept reform plans submitted on Friday to unlock much needed cash.

By Ben Moshinsky

The Bank of England will assess the danger from a shortage of market liquidity as it warned of threats to financial stability from events such as the crisis in Greece.

In response to a question tabled in Parliament by Golden Dawn MP Georgios Galeos over the management of Greece’s state-run pension funds, Alternate Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas said funds would be able to manage better their cash reserves by depositing them in the Bank of Greece.

At first look, the domestic economic agenda looks light this week, with purchasing managers? indices, preliminary exports and inflation being the main data releases. However, it may end up being the make-or-break week for Turkish assets, and eventually for the economy.

By Jonathan Saul & Sophie Sassard

Greece's leading banks are considering offloading part of their portfolios of shipping debt worth billions of dollars in a bid to shore up their capital, according to banking and ship financing sources.