Financial markets

By Marcus Bensasson & Christos Ziotis

Greece must fulfill its agreement with its creditors ?as soon as possible? to alleviate the liquidity squeeze and higher funding costs of its lenders, Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras said.

By Ilias Bellos

While the ratio between foreign sellers and buyers of Greek stocks has reached two-to-one in recent weeks, according major local stock brokers, buyers have recently included a new generation of investment groups aiming to benefit from the very low prices, mostly of Greek banks but also of other large groups.

 Credit sector expects swift deal for new funding program, otherwise country?s economy risks being derailed

By Yiannis Papadoyiannis

By Lucy Meakin

The yield premium investors demand to hold Italian bonds instead of German bunds rose from the least since May 2010 as investors considered the scale and form of anticipated European Central Bank sovereign-debt purchases.

By Anestis Dokas

Greek investors who have withdrawn some or all of their deposits in the last month-and-a-half are not panicking, aiming, instead at finding investment targets that would secure them positive returns, at least for the first half of the year, according to sources.

 Alpha and Eurobank are the other two to have applied for use of the mechanism that secures cash flow

By Yiannis Papadoyiannis

Two major Greek lenders applied to tap the national central bank's emergency funding a year after ending their reliance on it, a precautionary move stemming from deposit outflows before an election this month, bankers said on Jan. 16.

Turkey's main stock exchange, Borsa Istanbul, was ranked among the top five performers in the world in 2014, the exchange announced in a statement late on Jan. 5.

The BIST-100 Index was the best performing investment instrument based on its 2014 annual yields, with Borsa Istanbul investors gaining an average yield of 26.43 percent in 2014, said the statement.

By Anestis Dokas

Investors both in and outside of Greece are expressing concern about the recent political developments in e-mails to the Finance Ministry, the Bank of Greece and the managers of the country’s main banks.

 Huge fines await foreign institutional investors found to have broken naked short selling regulations

By Anestis Dokas

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