<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson - Research Economist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson - Research Economist]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AQOg66pQqJ0/marcus-bensasson</link><image><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/feeds/static/images/bloomberg_logo_black.png</url><title>Marcus Bensasson - Research Economist</title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AQOg66pQqJ0/marcus-bensasson</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:37:34 GMT</lastBuildDate><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2026 BLOOMBERG L.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><atom:link href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AQOg66pQqJ0/marcus-bensasson.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Turn Bullish on Europe]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-18/time-for-optimism-on-europe-goldman-and-morgan-stanley-think-so</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-18/time-for-optimism-on-europe-goldman-and-morgan-stanley-think-so</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:45:11 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itkqwbdx9pzY/v245/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itkqwbdx9pzY/v245/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description/></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek Economy Shrinks in Fourth Quarter]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-07/greek-economy-shrinks-in-fourth-quarter-on-weak-domestic-demand</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-07/greek-economy-shrinks-in-fourth-quarter-on-weak-domestic-demand</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 10:49:21 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iuqGeskE29yI/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iuqGeskE29yI/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Men play backgammon outside a coffee shop in Athens, Greece, on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Germany&apos;s Chancellor Angela Merkel begins 2019 with a two-day trip to Greece, her first visit in five years to the crisis-scarred country that posed two of the defining challenges of her career. Photographer: Yorgos Karahalis/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece to Sell 10-Year Bonds for First Time Since Before Bailout]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-05/greece-to-sell-10-year-bonds-for-first-time-since-before-bailout</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-05/greece-to-sell-10-year-bonds-for-first-time-since-before-bailout</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece Wins Moody's Upgrade as Reforms Start to Bear Fruit]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-01/greece-wins-moody-s-upgrade-as-reforms-starting-to-bear-fruit</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-01/greece-wins-moody-s-upgrade-as-reforms-starting-to-bear-fruit</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:57:18 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iLnVW3B1SdcI/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iLnVW3B1SdcI/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The national flag of Greece flies above the parliament building in Athens, Greece. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[People Are Turning Down Jobs as Tax Collectors in Greece]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-28/greece-has-a-tax-collection-problem-recruiting-tax-collectors</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-28/greece-has-a-tax-collection-problem-recruiting-tax-collectors</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2019 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i5xxv0cVrxyg/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i5xxv0cVrxyg/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Pedestrians walk through Monastiraki square in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras has spent nearly two years telling Greeks that a debt deal and inclusion in the European Central Bank’s quantitative-easing program will unleash an investment boom that salves the pain of austerity. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece in New Row Over Attack on Central Bank Independence]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-19/bank-of-greece-s-stournaras-slams-minister-over-call-recording</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-19/bank-of-greece-s-stournaras-slams-minister-over-call-recording</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:19:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece Seeks European Commission’s Assent for Bank Plan, Sources Say]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-18/greece-is-said-to-seek-european-commission-approval-of-bank-plan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-18/greece-is-said-to-seek-european-commission-approval-of-bank-plan</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sotiris Nikas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:10:13 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i6bBGb12P3Xc/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i6bBGb12P3Xc/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Tourists visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the Greek parliament in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. The change in sentiment toward Greece -- the epicenter of the European financial crisis -- is reflected in the fact that country’s bond yields are the lowest since before the turmoil even as the debt remains deep in junk territory. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Democracy Maintains Steady Lead Over Syriza in Greek Poll]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-02/new-democracy-maintains-steady-lead-over-syriza-in-greek-poll</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-02/new-democracy-maintains-steady-lead-over-syriza-in-greek-poll</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2019 17:07:09 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/idlSN18MRAww/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/idlSN18MRAww/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Greek army soldiers stand to attention as they raise the national flag early morning on Acropolis Hill in Athens, Greece, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. Greece is back in the headlines as it struggles to free itself from a disagreement between the International Monetary Fund and Europe.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Needs to Address Large Fiscal Deficit, IMF Economist Warns]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-21/u-s-needs-to-address-large-fiscal-deficit-imf-economist-warns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-21/u-s-needs-to-address-large-fiscal-deficit-imf-economist-warns</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:51:43 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iikuaeYjyQ58/v258/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iikuaeYjyQ58/v258/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description/></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euro-Area Inflation Eases as ECB Nears End of Bond Buying]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-30/euro-area-inflation-eases-as-ecb-approaches-end-of-bond-buying</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-30/euro-area-inflation-eases-as-ecb-approaches-end-of-bond-buying</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i.iTiVx5yOu4/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i.iTiVx5yOu4/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>An employee hands a customer their change at the check out inside an Auchan Retail SA supermarket in Yvelines, France, on Monday, May 7, 2018. Casino Guichard Perrachon SA and Auchan are in exclusive talks to form a global purchasing alliance to help them negotiate better prices as competition in the French grocery market increases.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prem Watsa Keeps Faith in Greek Bank That's Only Caused Him Pain]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-26/prem-watsa-keeps-faith-in-greek-bank-that-s-only-caused-him-pain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-26/prem-watsa-keeps-faith-in-greek-bank-that-s-only-caused-him-pain</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:22:04 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iC2VUur0yH1E/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iC2VUur0yH1E/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Prem Watsa,  Photographer: Norm Betts/Bloomberg </media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece's Eurobank Seeks Revival With $8 Billion Bad-Loan Plan]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-26/eurobank-grivalia-properties-to-merge-securitize-npes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-26/eurobank-grivalia-properties-to-merge-securitize-npes</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 06:41:01 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iPyMVZsGr_j8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iPyMVZsGr_j8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>An EFG Eurobank Ergasias SA company logo sits outside a branch in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Greek banks are under growing political pressure to merge as second-quarter earnings probably slumped on rising loan losses and worsening asset quality in the debt-burdened country.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek Lenders Rise After Bank of Greece Unveils Salvage Plan]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-22/bank-of-greece-unveils-plan-to-salvage-lenders-amid-market-rout</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-22/bank-of-greece-unveils-plan-to-salvage-lenders-amid-market-rout</guid><category><![CDATA[personal-finance]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sotiris Nikas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:49:36 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iw2.N9U7B6sE/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iw2.N9U7B6sE/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A security guard carries a cash box from the central branch of the National Bank of Greece SA in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. Greek markets have rallied this month on expectations creditors may finally ease the country’s debt at a Dec. 5 meeting of euro-area finance ministers.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece Must Accelerate Reform Implementation, EU Report Says]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/greece-must-accelerate-reform-implementation-eu-commission-says</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/greece-must-accelerate-reform-implementation-eu-commission-says</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:57:27 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iwAeYsN2zQvg/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iwAeYsN2zQvg/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Pedestrians walk through Monastiraki square in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras has spent nearly two years telling Greeks that a debt deal and inclusion in the European Central Bank’s quantitative-easing program will unleash an investment boom that salves the pain of austerity. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece Dodges New Pension Cuts as Government Eyes 2019 Elections]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-16/greece-dodges-new-pension-cuts-as-government-eyes-2019-elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-16/greece-dodges-new-pension-cuts-as-government-eyes-2019-elections</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:09:47 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iRQDZipAa4WQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iRQDZipAa4WQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A customer puts euro coins into her purse while shopping for groceries at a farmer&apos;s market in the old town district of Thessaloniki, Greece, on Thursday, July 9, 2015. Greece is rushing to pull together a detailed economic package to convince European leaders that it can keep the euro.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euro-Area Economy Grows Least in Four Years as Germany Drags]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-14/euro-area-economy-grows-least-in-four-years-as-germany-drags</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-14/euro-area-economy-grows-least-in-four-years-as-germany-drags</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:02:20 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iMqzLvzquZVc/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iMqzLvzquZVc/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description/></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek Retirees Are Moving to One of Europe’s Poorest Countries]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-08/greeks-retirees-head-to-bulgaria-to-make-pensions-go-further</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-08/greeks-retirees-head-to-bulgaria-to-make-pensions-go-further</guid><category><![CDATA[personal-finance]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2018 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i20hLrdmpJ78/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i20hLrdmpJ78/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>An elderly pedestrian passes a newspaper vendor outside an OAED employment center in Athens.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Draghi's Economic View Stacks Up Against the Executive Suite]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-29/how-draghi-s-economic-view-stacks-up-against-the-executive-suite</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-29/how-draghi-s-economic-view-stacks-up-against-the-executive-suite</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jana Randow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:31:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek Banks Tumble as Italy Adds to Capital Worry]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-08/greek-banks-tumble-as-italian-contagion-adds-to-capital-concerns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-08/greek-banks-tumble-as-italian-contagion-adds-to-capital-concerns</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 10:57:49 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iVpt8txUIxWE/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iVpt8txUIxWE/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A customer uses an automated teller machines (ATM) operated by Eurobank Ergasias SA at night in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. Greece&apos;s four biggest banks may need as little as 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) of new private funds to meet their expected contributions toward filling a capital shortfall, if they succeed in raising 3.2 billion euros through debt swaps.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tsipras Tests Greek Budget Credibility With Pitch to Voters]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-01/tsipras-tests-greek-budget-credibility-with-pitch-to-voters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-01/tsipras-tests-greek-budget-credibility-with-pitch-to-voters</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Bensasson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 17:25:12 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>