The Annual General Meeting of shareholders of Hellenic Bank Public Co (HB) approved a final dividend payment of EUR 0.02 per share for 2008 raising the total dividend to EUR 0.05/per share.
Hellenic Bank Group closed 2008 with a profit, before tax, of 44.6 million euro, despite marking lower profit compared to 2007. Speaking during Wednesday’s HB Shareholders’ Annual General Meeting (AGM), both the
European economies showed signs on Thursday that the worst recession in six decades was easing, but U.S. predictions of a hard road to recovery haunted global markets and fed fears of rising
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's lowered its outlook on Britain to negative on Thursday, citing government debt that would be hard to rein in and political uncertainty about the policy response with
British retail sales rose much more than expected in April with most sectors doing well, official data showed on Thursday, in a sign that consumer spending is still holding up in the
Americans could face higher unemployment for some time to come, President Barack Obama warned on Wednesday, underscoring the tough challenges the country faces even as the economy shows signs of stabilizing. Obama,
Euro zone and U.S. business surveys are expected to confirm on Thursday that the world's worst recession in six decades is easing, but that it will take some time before the global
President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat will meet on Thursday morning in the framework of direct negotiations which began last September with a
Government Spokesman Stephanos Stephanou pointed out on Wednesday that ''the solution of the Cyprus problem can constitute a win-win situation for all parties involved'' and that ''Turkey can promote her European aspirations
Oil prices briefly pushed above $62 a barrel on Wednesday to touch a new six-month high on bullish inventory data and a spate of refinery accidents in the United States, in spite
