Greek stocks surge after commanding victory by conservatives

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Greek stocks surged on Monday after an unexpectedly easy victory for the ruling conservative party.

The Greek Athex Composite
GD,
+6.73%

jumped nearly 7% in opening trading, following the landslide victory of the conservative party led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

New Democracy was leading the left-leaning Syriza party by over 20 percentage points. Even so, it doesnโ€™t look like it will have an outright majority, though the winning party under Greek rules gets bonus seats in a second election, which is likely to be held in either late June or early July.

The victory was unexpectedly large following a railway disaster and a wiretap scandal.

The yield on the 10-year Greek government bond
TMBMKGR-10Y,
3.842%

fell 6 basis points to 3.94%.

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