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:
- $19 billion worth of loan repayments due to private lenders on 20 March 2012
- On February 2012:
- Racing to finalize austerity reforms so as to get a new €130 billion ($171 billion) bailout
- Back in November 2011:
- Greece received a second bailout worth $178 billion
- Voluntary 50% write down by private creditors
- $150 billion in recapitalizations for the continent's banks
- Leveraging the $610 billion from EFSF in order to brings its lending capacity to around $1.4 trillion
- Back in May 2010:
- 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
- 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)
- Deep in recession
- Unemployment rate = 19%
- Debt to GDP ratio = 144%
Thanks
Paul
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