French spreads steady after downgrade threat
All bar one of France’s public sector covered bond programmes face downgrades after Standard & Poor’s cut the Republic of France by one notch from AA+ to AA, Crédit Agricole research said on Friday. However, French mortgage backed covered bonds should avoid any downgrades. In any case dealers were certain the impact would be negligible.
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