Greece

The rally seen this week in Greece's major banking stocks has been large enough that it stands out equally as much as the major sell-off that they saw during the prior week.
The world finally has figured out that dealing with Greece's government is becoming like dealing with troubled Latin American markets of years past, except perhaps even worse.
In a report published Wednesday morning, Moody’s Investors Service acknowledges that the possibility of a Greek exit from the eurozone does exist today.
With the woes of Europe dominating the headlines for the start of 2015, the concerns about the future of Greece in the eurozone are upon us yet again.
Greece is making itself temporarily relevant yet one more time. Its Prime Minister has called for the presidential election to be moved up to next week.
Source: thinkstockThe woes of Europe are supposed to be abating, at least somewhat. That is certainly supposed to be the case in the lands of the PIIGS — Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain....
Only just recently have analysts and credit ratings agencies warmed up to National Bank of Greece and other banks in Greece. Now S&P reclassifies Greece's banking industry.
Source: thinkstockThe European Central Bank announced a negative interest rate policy on Thursday. It may not have been enough for the stimulus-addiction crowd, but this is truly an experiment. If...
National Bank of Greece was featured positively on Tuesday by the Nomura analyst team covering the European banking sector. The call actually has a bit of mixed data in it.
Source: ThinkstockIt seems almost too hard to believe, but we have seen two of the PIIGS upgraded by different credit ratings agencies this Friday. Fitch ratings has raised Greece’s sovereign...
Source: ThinkstockThe Fitch announcement on Greece debt upgrade:    Fitch Ratings has upgraded Greece’s Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to ‘B’ from...
Source: ThinkstockCan you imagine that the Greek banking sector is being raised by a credit ratings agency? It sounds impossible to imagine if you have been following the story as long as we have....
Standard & Poor's has affirmed its CCC rating on National Bank of Greece. The call sounds like it is one of stability on the surface, but S&P's outlook is Negative.
Source: thinkstockThe capital markets have opened back up to Greece. The struggling, or very struggling, island nation in the eurozone (and one of the PIIGS), has tapped the capital markets for a 3...
Source: ThinkstockGreece reportedly will announce a long-term bond sale as soon as Wednesday, the first time it has had access to capital markets since March 2010. But the question to ask is, is it...