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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Greece scraps key privatisations, stocks hammered

Greece's new hard-left government on Wednesday scrapped key privatisation tenders and pressed home its demand for debt relief, causing sharp falls on the Athens stock market as investors fretted over the risk of a default. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said his "national salvation" government would not sell a majority stake in the main ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki, and would also halt the ...


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