Financial ratios

Turkey has become one of the 10 countries with the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio among 47 countries surveyed, according to the latest report by consultancy firm McKinsey.

Turkey's Central Bank raised foreign exchange reserve requirement ratios on Jan. 3, citing the need to support financial stability amid volatility in global markets.

Bulgaria has received a record low dividend from its state-owned companies this year, it was revealed on Thursday.

Reasons include worsened financial performance of state-owned firms and a cut in the dividend rate to 70% from 80%, capital.bg said on Thursday, citing Finance Ministry figures.

Coca-Cola HBC AG, the second-largest bottler of Coca-Cola Company brands, on Thursday reported a net profit slide of 11 percent in the six-month period ending June 27.

Income fell to 99 million euros from 111 million a year earlier. Net sales revenue declined 6 percent to 3.183 million from 3.381 million in the same period.

By Chryssa Liaggou

The government intends to implement measures reducing energy costs for enterprises, even without the approval of the European Commission, Development Minister Nikos Dendias said on Thursday following a ministerial committee meeting on industrial policy.

By Marius Zaharia

Greek yields dipped on Thursday as the aid recipient readied an issue of three-year bonds in its second debt sale since its default, taking advantage of a European Central Bank promise to make long-term loans to banks.

The Standard & Poor’s report on Greek banks inflicted fresh losses on their respective stocks and sealed the benchmark’s end-of-week fate, as it posted the biggest weekly drop of 2014, giving up 7.35 percent from last Friday.

By Marius Zaharia

Cyprus is preparing to sell bonds to yield-starved investors in the next few weeks, making a return to markets that looked very distant just a year ago when it was bailing-in bank depositors and imposing capital controls.

By Yiannis Papadoyiannis

The international investment community’s interest in National Bank’s share capital increase was exceptionally high on Tuesday, resulting in the oversubscription for the shares of 2.5 billion euros in total from the first day of book building, according to sources.