Spanish Sovereign

Spanish 10 year yields continued to rise on Tuesday morning as it prepared for auction on Thursday. Yields for the country hovered between 6.23% and 6.25%. Meanwhile, Italian yields rose back above 7%.

Italy successfully navigated its planned five year bond auction on Monday morning but any relief on the part of investors is tempered by scepticism over the quality of the sale. French yields rallied but that sentiment may be short-lived, said bankers, as investors targeted Spanish Bonos.

Some form of resolution to the Greek debt crisis could be imminent in a bid to stop contagion as Italian and Spanish govvies cheapened again on Monday morning and EU finance ministers met in Brussels.

The latest initiatives designed to stave off a Greek default are unlikely to be successful, for the same reason that previous measures have failed — namely, that they don't tackle the fundamental issues. In any case, trying to keep the eurozone together is the wrong goal.

European sovereign were among the markets that tanked on Monday morning, after Eurozone politicians postponed their announcement over a further bail-out for Greece until their next meeting on July 11.

Peripheral bonds got whacked on Thursday. The cause was much the same as has often been the case in the last 18 months — European politicians spreading doom and gloom.