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Investors dumped BTPs this week as far from market-friendly plans emerged from talks this week between the Five Star Movement and the Northern League, which looked set to form a government as GlobalCapital went to press. But there were still some notes of optimism as Italy sold the latest line of its BTP Italia product with little fuss and bankers said BTP yields were still very far from crisis levels.
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A populist coalition poised to take power in Italy sent shudders across markets this week, with the concerns going well beyond BTPs and Italian corporates to spill into other countries and raise questions over the future of eurozone capital markets unity. Craig McGlashan, Jasper Cox and Sam Kerr report.
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The UK Debt Management Office again broke a couple of syndication records as it extended the Gilt curve on Tuesday, but onlooking bankers felt the real story was how the underlying Gilt curve behaved through the deal.
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The European Commission has defended its plans to forge ahead ahead with plans to introduce sovereign bond-backed securities (SBBS), despite market participants’ lack of enthusiasm for the project.
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Italy’s political situation may be making investors nervous but the sovereign this week sold the latest line of its BTP Italia product with little fuss — although the domestic skew on the bond makes it a poor barometer of international faith in the credit.