Tuesday, December 7, 2010

PIIGS Update - Spreads Muted

Spreads in the periphery are somewhat muted today as a result of official buying in Portugal, Ireland and Greece.


Periphery: yield vs GER lvls (chg on day) in bps
              2y         5y        10y       30y/15y for IRE
ESP    247 (+7)   271 (+11) 235 (+4)  261 (+2)
POR    301 (-3)   309 (+2)  309 (+0)  295 (-2)
GRE  1068 (+16) 1067 (+7) 879 (0)   566 (-4)
IRE    400 (-3)   497 (-10) 523 (-11) 476 (-15)
ITA    158 (-2)   169 (+2)  166 (+3)  194 (0)


Hearing real money selling into official buying.

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