{"id":19051,"date":"2019-04-08T20:43:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T17:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=19051"},"modified":"2019-04-08T20:56:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T17:56:55","slug":"greek-stocks-outperformance-only-starting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/19051","title":{"rendered":"Greek Stocks Outperformance Only Starting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s not just Greek bonds that are in favor — the country’s equities will continue to outperform<\/strong> as the economy recovers and benefits from debt relief.<\/div>\n
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The Athens Stock Exchange has soared about 23% this year, outperforming the Stoxx 600 and even surpassing peripheral peer Italy.<\/a> Part of the gains are due to the global risk rally as well as Greece’s economic recovery<\/a>, with GDP forecast<\/a> to grow 1.9% this year, versus 0.1% for Italy and 1.2% for the euro zone.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Financials make up almost one-quarter<\/a> of the ASE and comprise some of the best year-to-date<\/a> performers. The FTSE\/Athex Banks index has soared over 40% ytd. The euro-area’s agreement to disburse<\/a> around EU1 billion to Greece can support both the bond market and the country’s banks. Greece may also repay part<\/a> of its IMF loans early.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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(Bloomberg) — It’s not just Greek bonds that are in favor — the country’s equities will continue to outperform as the economy recovers and benefits from debt relief. The Athens Stock Exchange has soared about 23% this year, outperforming the Stoxx 600 and even surpassing peripheral peer Italy. Part of the gains are due to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19052,"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-19051","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\/19051","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=19051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19060,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19051\/revisions\/19060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}