Greece puts final participation in debt swap deal at 96.9 per cent

Athens (dpa) - Greece‘s finance ministry on Wednesday said the final participation rate for a debt swap deal intended to halve the country‘s massive debt was 96.9 per cent.According to a ministry, about 199 billion euros (260 billion dollars) worth of bonds had been swapped out of a total 205.5 billion euros of bonds owned by private bondholders which include banks and pension funds."We are