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Belgium and two European agencies also mandated, even as the US and Iran failed to reach a peace deal
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Portugal’s curve rallied after the sovereign announced an exchange offer, marking the best performance on Wednesday in the eurozone periphery — except for Greece. -
Euro supply from public sector institutions is being stifled by a double whammy of ultra low yields in the currency and escalating tensions over Greece's financial future.
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Financial markets had a good laugh when the ECB press conference was interrupted by protester Josephine Witt dumping confetti on Mario Draghi. This turned to puzzlement when she released what appeared to be a poem, describing herself as a butterfly. But she has a point.
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The eurozone periphery took a battering this week, with growing worries over a Greek default blamed as a catalyst for an investor pushback against the effects of quantitative easing.
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The public sector bond market in euros is groping for direction in the aftermath of European Central Bank buying that has vaporised secondary levels. Issuers and bankers are assessing how secondary levels compare with where investors other than the ECB would buy in size.
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Investors mobilised this week, revolting against the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme, forcing eurozone periphery sovereigns to fund themselves at yields that predate central bank buying for the first time since the ECB’s public sector purchase programme began last month.
