Greek stocks are soaring Tuesday on hopes of a resolution to the debt standoff between Greece's new radical government and its creditors. Right now, the Athens Stock Exchange General Index is up 8.91%. Here's a one-week chart from Bloomberg: The news comes after Greece's new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis told the Financial Times that instead of requesting a write-off of its €315 billion (£237 billion; $357 billion) foreign debt, the government would ask to swap Greek debt for two new types of bonds linked to growth.Join the conversation about this story »
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