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Greece on a knife edge

Greece is in the midst of another hellish week and now faces no choice but to seek to formally activate the European rescue package. While this may help to ease the markets’ frazzled nerves, the latest upward revision to the 2009 budget deficit highlights the mammoth task ahead.

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