Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-03-11

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

CONTENTS

[01] Corpse in suitcase found in trash bin at bus depot

[02] T-bill auction next week

[03] ASE opening: Rise

[04] Athens Newspaper Headlines 

[01] Corpse in suitcase found in trash bin at bus depot

The discovery was made by a ragpicker who was searching through the garbage and found the suitcase with the corpse inside.

The ragpicker alerted police, who are conducting an on-the-spot investigation, while a coroner has also been called in.

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[02] T-bill auction next week

The auction is for a regularly scheduled T-bill issue, the head of Greece's Public Debt Management Organisation Petros Christodoulou said in a statement to Reuters news agency, given that liquidity was adequate at this time, and therefore "there is no need to proceed with an issue of interest-bearing treasury bills next week".

Christodoulou further said that Greece will return to the markets in April with the next issue of Treasury bills.

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[03] ASE opening: Rise

Individual sector indices were moving upward nearly across the board, with the biggest gains in Health, up 3.56 percent; Financial Services, up 3.73 percent; and Banks, up 2.99 percent.

The only losses were in Mass Media, down 1.44 percent; and Personal Products, down 0.05 percent.

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks was up 2.17 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index was up 0.93 percent, and the FTSE/ASE-80 small cap index was up 1.58 percent.

Of the stocks traded, 68 were up, 10 were down, and 9 were unchanged.

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[04] Athens Newspaper Headlines

The economy and other economic issues, and Friday's informal eurogroup summit in Brussels were the main front-page items in Athens' dailies on Friday.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "More than 20 percent of shops central commercial streets in Attica, have gone out of business".

AVGHI: "Left-wing proposal for the debt and the crisis".

AVRIANI: "Merkel sending us to Auschwitz".

DIMOKRATIA: "Papandreou's murky bargaining with Gaddafi".

ELEFTHEROS: "The biggest arguing in the government in the most critical hours".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Domino of resignations in Papaconstantinou's (finance minister) staff".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Merkel: We'll help if you sell (state assets)".

ESTIA: "The truth is being concealed".

ETHNOS: "New settlement for 300,000 debtors to social security funds".

IMERISSIA: "Two 'yes', one 'no', from Merkel - Intense behind the scenes just before the EU and eurogroup summit".

KATHIMERINI: "Merkel demands guarantees".

LOGOS: "1 in 3 shops on Stadiou street (in downtown Athens' commercial district) have closed".

NAFTEMPORIKI: "Merkel opens the door to the Greek 'package'".

NIKI: "Agreement 'locked in' for solution with Greek colors".

PARASKEVI+13 (weekly): "We've given all we had".

RIZOSPASTIS: "Abolition of the only state child-surgery center in Greece".

TA NEA: "Arrangement-breather for debts to social security funds".

VRADYNI: "Freeze on auctions and seizures (of assets) to end of 2012 for debts to social security funds".

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