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Portuguese/German yield spread tighter on day
LONDON | Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:34am EST
LONDON Nov 26 (Reuters) - The premium investors demand to hold Portuguese government bonds rather German benchmarks fell from the day's highs on Friday on some investor relief after the Portuguese parliament approved its 2011 austerity budget.
Parliament adopted the budget hours after a Financial Times Deutschland report said that most euro zone countries and the European Central Bank (ECB) were pressing Lisbon to seek an international rescue package as Greece and Ireland have done.
The 10-year Portuguese/German bond yield spread tightened 11 basis points on the day to 444 basis points, having widened to as much as 471 bps earlier, with traders saying they also saw some European Central Bank buying of Portuguese debt earlier.
"We believe it's the budget being passed rather than the ECB buying. We only saw one lot of ECB buying and that was much earlier this morning," a trader said.
Equivalent Spanish and Italian spreads were also off the day's highest levels.
LONDON | Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:34am EST
LONDON Nov 26 (Reuters) - The premium investors demand to hold Portuguese government bonds rather German benchmarks fell from the day's highs on Friday on some investor relief after the Portuguese parliament approved its 2011 austerity budget.
Parliament adopted the budget hours after a Financial Times Deutschland report said that most euro zone countries and the European Central Bank (ECB) were pressing Lisbon to seek an international rescue package as Greece and Ireland have done.
The 10-year Portuguese/German bond yield spread tightened 11 basis points on the day to 444 basis points, having widened to as much as 471 bps earlier, with traders saying they also saw some European Central Bank buying of Portuguese debt earlier.
"We believe it's the budget being passed rather than the ECB buying. We only saw one lot of ECB buying and that was much earlier this morning," a trader said.
Equivalent Spanish and Italian spreads were also off the day's highest levels.