Greece ETF: An Emerging Markets Star

Greece ETF: An Emerging Markets Star Benzinga Last Friday, the Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF (NYSE: GREK) surged over five percent on volume that was nearly six times the daily average. Much of that move can be attributed to the 19.5 percent gain by National Bank of Greece (NYSE: NBG), the largest ...

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Epirus the pie lover?s destination

By Evi Voutsina*Pies are household favorites nationwide, though the greatest variety is probably found in Epirus, northwestern Greece, whose mountains are covered in a wide variety of wild greens, herbs and mushrooms that are used in an equally vast array of pies. The most common of these pies made with wild greens is "blatsara," where, instead of a simple phyllo pastry, the filling ...

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Quick Quits Independent Greeks Spokesman

Terence Quick Former TV presenter Terence Quick has resigned as Parliamentary spokesman for the Independent Greeks, a minor political party that has almost no influence and is an offshoot of the ruling New Democracy Conservatives. In a letter to party leader Panos Kammenos, Quick said that he would remain as a lawmaker. He did not cite any motives for his decision although the party is lagging ...

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Gun-Toting Golden Dawn MP In Parliament

(AP Photo/Fosphotos, Panayiotis Tzamaros) Panagiotis Iliopoulos, an MP for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, gestures as he shouts insults at other lawmakers as he party colleagues surround him in support after he was ejected from the Greek Parliament on May 17 for verbal assaults. ATHENS - A lawmaker from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, whose members reportedly regularly carry arms, was asked not ...

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Greece Will Sell Troubled Proton Postbank

Two of Greece’s shakiest banks, Hellenic Postbank and Proton, will have to be sold by mid-July as the country’s largest banks continue gobbling up smaller institutions as part of plans to help the beleaguered economy begin to recover, envoys from international lenders have directed. Proton was taken over when it became insolvency in the wake of bad loans and a scandal involving its ...

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Slovenian philospher Zizek proposes gulag for those who do not support SYRIZA

Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has caused controversy in Greece by suggesting that he would send anyone who does not support SYRIZA to ...

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Smile, You're in Greece!

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Smile, You're in Greece! Jaunted It's not exactly a time to party over in Greece—at least for the country's residents—due to the ongoing financial problems, bailouts, and other money misery. We're hardly experts when it comes to the economic situation in the region, but we do know ...

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