Country’s lenders calm over Tsipras move

Greek government.” Once the ECB starts QE in Greece, it can buy 2-3 billion euros of bonds before it hits a self-imposed ceiling of owning no more than a third of a country’s paper. The ECB bought Greek bonds under a previous, smaller program called Securities Markets Purchases. Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem urged Greece yesterday to hold elections as soon as possible to avoid delays in implementing the country’s third bailout package. “I hope that they are as quick as possible so that the least possible amount of time is wasted,” he told journalists in The Hague. “I think the intention of Prime Minister Tsipras is to get a more stable government.” When asked whether the election would change the numbers of the bailout deal, Thomas Wieser, the head of