Europeans short €120bn of capital to normalise funding costs
As markets continue to worry about debt sustainability in Spain, Barclays analysts on Monday said that a stronger capital base would reassure investors on the probability of bank default. In total, they said Europe’s banks need some €120bn of new capital to bring funding costs down to economically sustainable levels.
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