Greece plans bond market return first half of 2014: PM

Greece plans to sell bonds at some point early next year, ending four years of exclusion from international capital markets, the country’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said.

This is the most optimistic forecast about a bond market return yet made by a Greek official, topping an estimate made last week by the country’s finance minister Yannis Stournaras who said that this would not happen before the end of next year.

“We are already scheduling Greece to go out in the markets in the first half of next year,” Samaras said in a speech before business leaders in Athens.

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