{"id":19030,"date":"2019-03-05T08:57:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T06:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=19030"},"modified":"2019-03-05T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T06:57:34","slug":"greece-to-sell-10-year-bonds-for-first-time-since-before-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/19030","title":{"rendered":"Greece to Sell 10-Year Bonds for First Time Since Before Bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Bloomberg) —<\/span><\/section>\n
Greece on Tuesday plans to mark a milestone in its recovery from a bruising financial crisis when it sells 10-year debt for the first time in nine years.<\/p>\n

The country plans to open the books on a syndicated offering of at least 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) of bonds after announcing Monday it hired banks for the sale, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the details aren\u2019t final yet.<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras<\/a>, facing a general election this year that polls show he\u2019s set to lose, has pointed to bond sales as proof the country has turned a corner after its economy shrank by a quarter during the crisis.<\/p>\n

After ending its bailout program last summer, Greece tapped the market for 2.5 billion euros of five-year bonds in January. The success of that sale, the country\u2019s first in almost a year, paved the way for the 10-year issue.<\/p>\n

Following the Tuesday sale, Greece will be almost two-thirds<\/a> of the way to meeting its 2019 goal of raising as much as 7 billion euros this year.<\/p>\n

Greek stocks and bonds have rallied this year, with the Athens Stock Exchange up more than 15 percent and the yield on benchmark 10-year government bonds down below 3.7 percent. The yield peaked at about 37 percent at the height of the debt crisis in 2012, just before Greece defaulted on its debt to private-sector creditors.<\/p>\n

The country last sold 10-year bonds in March 2010, with a 6.25 percent coupon, as the country was in the eye of a storm after a new government revealed that its predecessor had hidden the true size of its budget deficit.<\/p>\n

While it issued similar maturity debt in 2017, that was part of an exchange for bonds that were part of its debt restructuring.<\/p>\n

Greece\u2019s travails opened a new chapter in the global financial crisis, and two months later it entered the first of three bailouts from the euro area and International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n

For other euro-area countries like Ireland and Portugal that followed Greece in having to take bailouts, issuing 10-year debt was seen as a key staging post<\/a> in the journey to regaining economic sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Moody\u2019s Investors Service on Friday raised<\/a>Greece\u2019s sovereign credit rating two steps to B1 from B3. Although that\u2019s still four levels below investment grade, it gave a fresh boost to the government\u2019s bond-selling plan following European Commission criticism that the government was dragging its feet on key economic reforms.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Bloomberg) — Greece on Tuesday plans to mark a milestone in its recovery from a bruising financial crisis when it sells 10-year debt for the first time in nine years. The country plans to open the books on a syndicated offering of at least 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) of bonds after announcing Monday it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19032,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19030\/revisions\/19032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}