Investors rush into Italian linker despite spread compression

March 19, 2024 04:11 PM

Victor Emmanuel II National Monument in Rome. An equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel II, Rome, Italy. Altar of the Fatherland with italian flags

Books for the European sovereign’s €5bn deal were ‘sizable for a linker’

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Georgie Lee

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