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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-01-12
CONTENTS
[01] Eldorado Gold suspends much of its mine construction in Greece
[02] ND newly elected leader Mitsotakis' first moves
[03] Foreign investors raise participation Greek stock market's
capitalization
[01] Eldorado Gold suspends much of its mine construction in Greece
Canadian miner Eldorado Gold Corp on Monday said it will suspend much
of its mine construction and development in Greece after a year of
confrontations with the Greek government that included permits being
revoked and delayed by the state, according to Reuters news agency.
Eldorado said it will suspend construction at its Skouries project and
warned that it would do the same at its Olympias project if it did not
receive a permit by the end of March, Reuters said.
[02] ND newly elected leader Mitsotakis' first moves
New Democracy (ND) parliamentary group will probably convene on Thursday,
its newly elected leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said to journalists.
Mitsotakis also said he will have a meeting with former party leader
Evangelos Meimarakis and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. He underlined
that his priority is the restructuring of the party.
[03] Foreign investors raise participation Greek stock market's
capitalization
Foreign investors raised their participation in the capitalization of the
Greek stock market in December to 60.3 pct (including the participation
of Hellenic Financial Stability Fund) and to 64.2 pct (excluding the
participation of HRDAF), from 59.2 pct in November. Greek investors
held 32.5 pct of the market's capitalization in the last month of 2015.
Foreign investors were net buyers in December, with capital inflows
amounting to 997.58 million euros, while Greek investors were net
sellers with capital outflows totaling 997.11 million euros. Foreign
investors accounted for 65.1 pct of market transactions (up from 58.2
pct in November but down from 65.1 pct in December 2014). The value
of transactions totaled 3.942 billion euros in December, up 331.5 pct
from November and up 92 pct from December 2014. Average daily turnover
was 187.73 million euros, up from 43.51 million in November and 102.68
million in December 2014.
The number of active investor codes totaled 26,322 in December from 25,151
in November. The market's capitalization amounted to 39.2 billion euros
in December, up 13.8 pct from a month earlier, but down 14.2 pct from
December 2014.
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