Athens News Agency: News in English, 03-09-09

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Weather Forecast: Rain, storms on Tuesday

[02] Foreign Exchange Rates - Tuesday

[03] Greek inflation eases to 3.3 percent in August, yr/yr

[01] Weather Forecast: Rain, storms on Tuesday

Cloud, rain and storms are forecast on the mainland and in the Ionian and northern Aegean, gradually easing off except in the northwest. The rest of the country will see scattered cloud. Winds south-southwesterly, moderate. In the west and north, temperatures will range from 15C to 28C; and in the rest of the country from 16C to 30C. Temperatures in Athens between 19C and 29C; and in Thessaloniki from 18C to 27C.

[02] Foreign Exchange Rates - Tuesday

Reference buying rates per euro released by the European Central Bank

U.S. dollar 1.116

Pound sterling 0.704

Danish kroner 7.487

Swedish kroner 9.201

Japanese yen 130.4

Swiss franc 1.550

Norwegian kroner 8.313

Cyprus pound 0.587

Canadian dollar 1.531

Australian dollar 1.726

[03] Greek inflation eases to 3.3 percent in August, yr/yr

Greece's annual inflation, measured by the consumers' price index, fell to 3.3 percent in August from 3.6 percent in July, the National Statistics Service said on Monday.

NSS, in its monthly report, said that the inflation rate was 3.5 percent in August 2002.

The consumer price index was unchanged in August from July, after recording a 0.2 percent increase in the same period last year.

Harmonised inflation was running at 3.3 percent in August compared with the same month in 2002, the the core inflation (excluding volatile fuel and fresh produce prices) fell to 3.0 percent in August from 3.8 percent in August 2002.

NSS's secretary-general, Nikos Karavitis, commenting on the August inflation figures said he did not exclude a further fall in inflation over the next few months as fresh produce prices were steadily falling.

The August CPI figure reflected a 5.6 percent increase in food and non-alcohol drinks' prices, a 4.8 percent rise in hotel, coffee, restaurant prices, a 4.6 percent increase in education prices, a 3.6 percent increase in transport prices and price rises of 3.3 percent and 3.0 percent, respectively in services and housing. Communication prices, however, fell 3.6 percent in August.

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