Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-02-16

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Mass transit bill ratified

[02] ASE opening: Rise

[03] Athens Newspaper Headlines 

[01] Mass transit bill ratified

The bill, which prompted more than a month of strikes and work stoppages by mass transit employees, was passed with the votes of the ruling PASOK deputies and independent MP Dora Bakoyannis, a former main opposition New Democracy (ND) minister.

Earlier, public transport employees gathered outside Parliament in central Syntagma Square from the early afternoon to demonstrate against the bill.

�us drivers went ahead, however, with a four-hour work stoppage from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

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[02] ASE opening: Rise

Individual sector indices were moving mostly upward, with the biggest gains in Financial Services, up 2.00 percent; and Technology, up 1.82 percent.

The biggest losses were in Personal Products, down 1.48 percent; and Oil & Gas, down 0.91 percent.

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks was up 0.53 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index was up 1.23 percent, and the FTSE/ASE-80 small cap index was up 0.23 percent.

Of the stocks traded, 44 were up, 22 were down, and 23 were unchanged.

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[03] Athens Newspaper Headlines

Economic issues and the Bank of Greece's monetary report were the main front-page items in Athens' newspapers on Wednesday.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Salvation proposals by Bank of Greece".

AVGHI: "Wild recession".

AVRIANI: "Farewell and...happy bankruptcy - Early general elections".

DIMOKRATIA: "Ministers running to save themselves from the citizens".

ELEFTHERI ORA: "They 'implanted' the H1N2 virus in the seasonal flu vaccinations".

ELEFTHEROS: "Reductions in the Armed Forces benefits".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Electricity from Turkey for Greek islands - Troika demand for deregulation of energy market".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Children in wooden 'cages' with only a mattress".

ESTIA: "Growth being undermined".

ETHNOS: "Unrest in PASOK over the sell-offs".

IMERISSIA: "Recession at terrifying -6.6 percent, salaries -9 percent, unemployment at 12.5 percent".

KATHIMERINI: "Recession, without exit plan".

LOGOS: "Prohibition of sale of public land, with legislation".

NAFTEMPORIKI: "Greek economy 'sinking' into recession".

RIZOSPASTIS: "The people being brought to their knees, the popular movement being crushed".

TA NEA: "The 'family silver' on a...slow track".

VRADYNI: "This is where the money went, Mr. Prime Minister - Even the most incredible NGOs were financed by foreign ministry funds when the foreign minister was...George Papandreou".

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