Limited positive impact on the domestic bond market had The upgrade of the country’s credit rating from Standard & Poors Evaluation House On Friday.

After all, the yields of the Greek bond As well as their margins over the Germans, they have long been in mismatches with the country’s low credit ratings as they approach the respective countries with much higher credit rating than that of Greece. It is indicative that last week the 10 -year bond yield was 3.45% while today closed to HDAT at 3.35%, that was about 10 basis points.

However, the positive image that not only the Greek but also the largest eurozone markets have largely attributed to the estimates of the International Monetary Fund, which in addition to increased uncertainty due to duties, discounts at least one more reduction in its basic interest rate European Central Bank (ECB) to 2% from 2.25%.

It is recalled that the IMF In today’s report, it reduced its prediction of the eurozone economic growth for this year and next year, citing US duties and uncertainty about their implementation. More specifically, the IMF reduced its Eurozone GDP forecasts to 0.8% in 2025 and 1.2% in 2026, both forecasts by 0.2 points lower than the IMF had predicted at the beginning of the year.

For Greece, IMF forecasts are slightly more conservative of those of the government and the Bank of Greece, as it estimates that GDP will increase by 2% and 1.8% for 2026 this year, compared to 2.3% respectively. It also expects inflation at 2.4% for 2025 and 2.1% for 2026, compared to the government’s provision for 2.1% in 2025. At the same time, it provides a deficit in the current account of 6.5% for 2025 and 5.9% for 2026 -the previous IMF. Finally, it provides for the unemployment rate to reach 9.4% this year and 9% in 2026.

In the electronic trading system of Bank of Greece (HDAT) Transactions worth EUR 61 million were recorded, of which EUR 15 million concerned market orders. The yield on the 10 -year reference bond stood at 3.35% against 2.44% of the corresponding German, with the margin of 0.91%.