Does BES agony prove banks are rotten?
So that’s what a crisis feels like. We’d almost forgotten. European stocks down nearly 4% in the past week, Portugal’s CDS spread shooting from 157bp to 218bp. Banks’ newly minted CoCo tier one bonds dropping three percentage points in a day.
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