Lira pressured.

and despite the expansion of applications such as Skype and FaceTime, very few Greeks use video-telephony as a means of communication. Furthermore, Greek citizens have the lowest level of recognition of the European emergency number (112) among their EU peers. These are the main findings of a special Eurbarometer report titled “E-Communications and the Digital Single Market,” published last Friday. The report was based on data collected in April 2017. Some 63 percent of Greeks use their landline phones every day, against an EU average of 31 percent – and just 2 percent in Finland. In contrast, just 17 percent of the country’s population uses their email account on a daily basis, against 47 percent in the EU and 78 percent in Sweden. As for instant messaging use, Greece ranked 26th, only ahead of the Czech Republic and Bulgaria.

Turkey’s lira was under pressure again yesterday, retesting 4.90 per dollar, after US President Donald Trump threatened to introduce sanctions if Ankara does not free a jailed American pastor. Ankara says Andrew Brunson, who has been detained for two years and has worked in Turkey for 20 years, was behind a failed military coup against Erdogan’s government in 2016. This latest crisis between the NATO allies would be a further blow to Turkey’s already-fragile economy. The country’s government bonds were weaker and stocks were also marginally in the red following a recent run of gains.