New Effort Focuses on Bigger Greek Write-Down

ATHENS—Efforts to resolve Greece's financial crisis now are focusing on asking banks to take a major write-down on their holdings of Greek government bonds. These write-downs, or "haircuts," could range between 40% and 60% depending on the modality used, people with direct knowledge of Greece's ...

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