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Greece borrowed a further 5 billion euros
After the presentation of new austerity measures, Greece has launched a new bond issue market of a maximum volume of 5 billion euros, according to ministerial sources and markets.
It's ten-year bonds that should elapse from Bloomberg at a higher rate of 310 basis points above the benchmark, the German Bund. Five banks have been authorized for this program: Barclays, HSBC, Nomura, National Bank of Greece (NBG), Bank of Piraeus, Greece according to the Agency debt.
"Demand is very strong and this operation will be heavily oversubscribed", announced in mid-morning Ciaran O'Hagan, strategist at Societe Generale."An hour after the launch of the operation, the subscription book (book) had already reached 11 billion euros and the obligation is dealt 35 cents above the final price."
This success contrasts with the alarmist investors in recent days. And because, as the strategist in Paris: "Greece is very cheap compared to its note." Athens has raised over 13 billion euros on the market since the beginning of the year, said Wansquare.
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