Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Agreement on Greece?


Beautiful Greece?
Strong Euro as investors are hoping that the Greek politicians will have an agreement on the new cost cutting plan, in other words, a new austerity plan. In fact, this is the second meeting addressing this issue started on Sunday. 

Current Situation in Greece:

  1. $19 billion worth of loan repayments due to private lenders on 20 March 2012
  2. On February 2012:
    1. Racing to finalize austerity reforms so as to get a new €130 billion ($171 billion) bailout
  3. Back in November 2011:  
    1. Greece received a second bailout worth $178 billion
    2. Voluntary 50% write down by private creditors
    3. $150 billion in recapitalizations for the continent's banks
    4. Leveraging the $610 billion from EFSF in order to brings its lending capacity to around $1.4 trillion
  4. Back in May 2010:
    1. European Commission (EC) + European Central Bank (ECB) + IMF created a temporary bailout fund called the European Financial stability Facility (EFSF) to provide Greece with $163 billion loan 
  5. Announcement from Papademos' office that three different point of view politicians have agreed to cut spending by 1.5% of gross GDP =  €3.3 billion ($4.3 billion)
  6. Deep in recession
  7. Unemployment rate = 19%
  8. Debt to GDP ratio = 144%
Thanks
Paul

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