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      <title>Greek govt bond trade volume rises sharply</title>
      <link>https://www.brecorder.com/news/6614/greek-govt-bond-trade-volume-rises-sharply</link>
      <description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;img style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" src="https://i.brecorder.com/images/stories/pics2011/mar/bank_of_greece-400.jpg" width="400" height="300" /&gt;ATHENS: The volume of Greek government debt traded on the central bank's HDAT electronic system rose to 847 million euros ($1.2 billion) in February from 707 million in January amid heavy selling, the Bank of Greece said on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The central bank said that out of the 635 orders executed on trading platform HDAT last month, 71.9 percent were sell orders and 28.1 percent were buy orders.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Greece's borrowing costs have surged as markets fret over its massive debt load. The average monthly spread between Greek and German 10-year bond yields widened to an average of 862 basis points in February from 827 bps in January.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;On Friday the spread was around 968 bps.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Some 18.9 billion euros of government paper had changed hands in February 2010.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Greek government bond yields rose in February, in line with the rest of the euro zone's periphery.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The 3-year benchmark bond yield rose 107 basis points to 14.3 percent. In longer tenors, the 10-year yield rose 37 bps to 11.8 percent with 30-year paper yielding 8.84 percent, up 19 bps.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;As a result, Greece's yield curve steepened while remaining inverted, with the difference between the 30- and 3-year bond yields at 544 bps at end-February from 456 bps in January.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Copyright Reuters, 2011&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><img style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" src="https://i.brecorder.com/images/stories/pics2011/mar/bank_of_greece-400.jpg" width="400" height="300" />ATHENS: The volume of Greek government debt traded on the central bank's HDAT electronic system rose to 847 million euros ($1.2 billion) in February from 707 million in January amid heavy selling, the Bank of Greece said on Friday.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The central bank said that out of the 635 orders executed on trading platform HDAT last month, 71.9 percent were sell orders and 28.1 percent were buy orders.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Greece's borrowing costs have surged as markets fret over its massive debt load. The average monthly spread between Greek and German 10-year bond yields widened to an average of 862 basis points in February from 827 bps in January.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Friday the spread was around 968 bps.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some 18.9 billion euros of government paper had changed hands in February 2010.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Greek government bond yields rose in February, in line with the rest of the euro zone's periphery.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The 3-year benchmark bond yield rose 107 basis points to 14.3 percent. In longer tenors, the 10-year yield rose 37 bps to 11.8 percent with 30-year paper yielding 8.84 percent, up 19 bps.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As a result, Greece's yield curve steepened while remaining inverted, with the difference between the 30- and 3-year bond yields at 544 bps at end-February from 456 bps in January.</p>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:12:14 +0500</pubDate>
      <author>none@none.com (Syed Murtaza Gheblehzadeh)</author>
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