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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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Only the European Central Bank can resuscitate flatlining eurozone sovereign debt after this week’s collapse in Italian government bonds marked a new low in the common currency’s crisis, bankers said.
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Europe’s top investment bankers are utterly divided on what constitutes a feasible solution to the crisis in the eurozone, in a week where contagion spread to Italy and disturbing parallels were being drawn with the sense of panic that pervaded markets in September 2008.
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The spread of eurozone panic to Italy this week put the Swiss franc market on hold as investors and issuers waited for clarity from policy-makers on what the future might hold for peripheral economies. Only deals from domestic borrowers or driven by reverse enquiry were priced this week.
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The Republic of Poland was the first sovereign to issue a retail-focused Samurai bond in a decade last Friday – a ¥25bn four year note. The move by Japanese investors away from triple-A rated issuers in search of higher coupons could drive further trades from similar borrowers.
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