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'Everyone is ready for summer to be over' as SSA wave builds for Monday
Analysts discuss the scope of tightening in Bund swap spreads and the impact on SSA spreads
OATs and OLOs could weaken further versus Bunds while southern European countries and EU continue to paint a positive picture
Uncertainty looms large as presidential race far from clear and budget negotiations potentially ‘highly challenging’
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A week of further eurozone volatility is pushing sovereigns, supranationals and agencies even more towards private placements for funding.
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Short and defensive are the watchwords for issuers wishing to raise money in these turbulent times, as reflected by the success enjoyed by KfW and Cades in euros and BNG in dollars.
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The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) is poised to add the flexibility of short term money market issuance to its arsenal in December after it limped across the line with a €3bn 10 year bond for Ireland on Monday. As Italian bond yields took another pasting, the EFSF admitted its plan to use leverage to provide guarantees on sovereign debt a less potent weapon than it had envisaged.
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