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This week’s rush of covered bond deals looks like good news for Europe’s banks. But their treasury departments had better not relax just yet.
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Any SSA banker in London could have been fooled into thinking it was autumn already this week. And not just because of the dreary weather. Just as London shopkeepers have strung up signs on looted high streets declaring "business as usual", so crisis-weary investors are back trading new SSA paper.
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The idea of a two-tier euro system — a currency for the stout nations of Europe’s north and a kind of second division for the periphery — gets the sort of reaction from Europe’s politicians usually reserved for oddballs encountered on public transport.
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The European Central Bank has the firepower to halt the beating that Italian and Spanish bonds are taking before they are routed into a self-fulfilling catastrophic insolvency.
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Snafu. The familiar acronym sums up the weary realism and humour of the soldier faced with a situation that is as bad as usual. And snafu pretty much sums up the European and US bond markets this week.