Saturday Night Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...A bad bond auction in Spain spooks (rightly) global financial markets
Spain managed to sell 2.59 billion euros in bonds. That was just above the minimum target for the auction and well below the hoped for maximum of 3.5 billion euros. As bad as the shortfall in demand was, the increase in yields investors required before buying was even worse. After the auction, yields on the Spanish 10-year bond climbed to 5.7%.
Debt markets say Si to Spain–but see an increasing chance that Greece, Ireland, and Portugal will need rescue or go into default
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To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...The other big Spanish bank, Banco Bilbao, may have even more to gain from turmoil in its home market
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Now it’s Spain’s turn to unsettle the euro
Investors want to see a combination of taxes and spending that reduces Spain’s budget deficit, the Euro Zone’s third largest. But they’re skeptical that Prime Minister Zapatero can deliver: Since July 27, the spread between the benchmark 10-year German bund and the Spanish 10-year bond has widened by 0.36 percentage points