TREE NEWS reports: The premium investors demand to hold French government debt over equivalent German bonds has climbed to its highest level since the European debt crisis, as French bond yields surge. The move is heaping pressure on the European Central Bank, which faces being drawn into the turmoil in the French bond market. Markets are increasingly speculating on how much further the dislocation must deteriorate before the ECB deploys its so-far unused rescue tool.
French Bond Yield Spike Puts ECB Under Pressure
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The spread's return to euro-crisis-era levels is notable because it tests the ECB's crisis toolkit in a core, not peripheral, market. The pressure lands on the ECB, which must weigh drawing on an untested rescue tool against the moral-hazard signal that intervention would send. The open question is what threshold, if any, moves the ECB from speculation to action.
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