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What’s the TPI? How ECB Can Respond to French Bond Turmoil
Key Points
Central Banks Why the ECB Is Wary of Stepping Into France’s Bond Turmoil A sudden selloff of French bonds has stirred memories of the sovereign debt crisis that cascaded across Europe between 2009 and 2015. Attention is now turning to how the European Central Bank might respond.
Central Banks
Why the ECB Is Wary of Stepping Into France’s Bond Turmoil
A sudden selloff of French bonds has stirred memories of the sovereign debt crisis that cascaded across Europe between 2009 and 2015. Attention is now turning to how the European Central Bank might respond.
France has been running one of the euro area’s largest budget deficits. The extra yield demanded by investors to hold French 10-year bonds compared with those of Germany recently hit its highest since 2011. The bonds of other indebted European nations including Italy, Greece and Belgium have also come under pressure.