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This article was published April 9, 2015 at 11:41.
Greece repaid to the IMF loan of 450 million euro due today, as he had anticipated in Washington Finance Minister greek, Yanis Varoufakis. He told Bloomberg a source of the Ministry of Finance of Greece. Greece now has to pay in April of two deadlines T.Bill, yielding 2% with a maturity of six months before the April 14 for an amount of EUR 1.4 billion and the second on 17 April for a 1 billion euro. The next installment to be paid to the IMF expires May 12 in an amount equal to 767 million euro, a loan during the first bailout of 2010.
The news has impressed some as the Minister of Economy and Finance Italian, Pier Carlo Padoan, on a visit to Singapore: “It is in everyone’s interest to avoid a Greek exit from the euro,” he told Bloomberg Economy Minister adding that progress is being made on Greece.
Others, however, like the American banker Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, are of the opposite opinion: “The JPMorgan Chase, the largest US bank by assets must be ready the possibility that Greece may be forced to leave the euro. “
” We must be prepared for a potential exit of Greece, “Dimon wrote Wednesday in a letter to shareholders of his bank in New York. “We do stresss continually test our bank based on possible repercussions arising from such an event.”
From Brussels instead arrive signs of impatience after weeks of negotiations. A Deputy Minister of Finance of the euro zone, which participates in the so-called Working Group, the set of political and Sherpas who is assessing the consistency of Greek reforms presented to creditors, would reveal that the Eurogroup would give Athens’ six working days for prepare concrete proposals for reform “and allow an agreement that could be signed in the Eurogroup meeting April 24 in order to unlock the rescue aid amounting to 7.2 billion euro. This was reported by the newspaper Kathimerini greek.
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