GLOBAL & REGIONAL DAILY (Friday, February 18, 2022)

GLOBAL & REGIONAL DAILY
HIGHLIGHTS
February 18 2022
Global Markets
On the US data front, weekly initial jobless claims for the week ending 12 February reached 248k, higher by 23kWoW, building permits in January came in at 1.899mn, (+0.7%MoM) and housing starts for the same month stood at 1.638mn (-4.1%MoM).
Greece
According to ELSTAT, for the enterprises of the economy as a whole, obliged to double-entry accounting bookkeeping, for which data are available on a monthly basis, the turnover in December 2021 amounted to €30.3bn, recording an increase of 33.5%YoY.
CESEE
Turkey tapped the capital markets yesterday by selling USD3bn in Turkish 5Y sovereign sukuk dollar bonds, marking the country’s largest overseas debt placement on record, according to Bloomberg.
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