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Data Change: Greece - Sovereign yields
Wednesday, 23 Jan 2019 08:14 ET
By Keith Golden
Summary
January 2019 -- For secondary market yields and prices of Greek government bonds, for tenors of three to 30 years, we have expanded our extract (four monthly series 1998 to 2018, replaced by 14 from 1999).
Detail

In response, we have:

  1. Archived the four predecessors by marking metadata as "discontinued" and by segregating in the catalog.
  2. Created one-for-one replacements.
  3. Added three additional tenors.
  4. Added the seven corresponding prices.

Dataset properties:

  • Tenors: 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 30 years
  • Measurements:
    • Percent per annum (% p.a.)
    • Clean price in euros per 100 euros face value (EUR per 100 EUR)
  • Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
  • Native frequency: Monthly
  • Compaction: Monthly average
  • Start date(s): March 1999, March 2005, January 2013

The series reside in the historical catalog (Greece » Financial » Sovereign yields) and include, for example: 

  • IR%GB10YUM.IGRC  = [DISCONTINUED] Interest rates: Government bonds - 10 years - Secondary market, (% p.a., NSA)
  • IR%GB10YSUM.IGRC = Interest rates: Government bonds - 10 years - Secondary market, (% p.a., NSA)
  • IRLGB20YSUM.IGRC = Government bond prices: 20 years, (EUR per 100 EUR, NSA)

Because catalog locations are subject to change, the upper-right search box on DataBuffet.com provides a "find in catalog" mode that accepts a mnemonic.  

Please be aware that

These data are published by the source (Bank of Greece) in two tables, and we have switched our process to the one that is more timely. However, the reported histories are not identical, so rather than revise our existing series, we have replaced them.

There are minor value differences but, more importantly, the replacement data have a gap over the interval March 2012 to December 2012. We are investigating the discrepancy and whether we can splice the pairs of series.

Our previous extract contained only four tenors, so there are four pairs of series you may want to compare:

Tenor (years)PredecessorReplacement
10 IR%GB10YUM.IGRC IR%GB10YSUM.IGRC
15 IR%GB15YUM.IGRC IR%GB15YSUM.IGRC
20 IR%GB20YUM.IGRC IR%GB20YSUM.IGRC
30 IR%GB30YUM.IGRC IR%GB30YSUM.IGRC

See also

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Related ReleaseGreek Government Securities
SourceBank of Greece
FrequencyMonthly
GeographyGreece
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