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’The eurozone crisis-oil shock nexus
We know higher spreads and rates can feed into the eurozone’s debt crisis.
How about oil prices?
Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s European rates team reckons so in a note out on Friday. Furthermore,
The once and future sovereign crisis
From the annals of is-that-really-the-story-here Bloomberg headlines:
Europe Debt Crisis Abates as Traders See Yield Spreads Narrow
Talk about a fisking opportunity. Needless to say, the crisis isn’t abating.
Irish-German yield spread reaches record 329bps
The spread action post Standard & Poor’s Tuesday Ireland downgrade:
And just think — back in August 2007, German yields were higher than Ireland’s.
How times have changed.
When Irish spreads are widening
The spread between 10-year Irish bonds and German bunds hit a three-month high on Monday — just ahead of Tuesday’s 10:30am (London time) auction of up to €1.5bn worth of Ireland debt :
All eyes on Spain – and not in a football sense [updated]
As in World Cup football, so in the bond market?
There are plenty of Spain-Switzerland Cup jokes going ’round at the moment, in light of the Spanish team’s surprise defeat at the hands of the er,
More on Greek bond spreads
Last week, the spread between Greek bonds and German bunds widened to its widest since April after the Greek central bank warned domestic lenders they would have to wean themselves of ECB liquidity measures.