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- Bond sales in peripheral Eurozone states are rising as the region’s recovery gains speed.
- “The euro-peripheral countries have come a long way from the near-death situation two years ago,” Soeren Moerch, head of fixed-income trading at Danske Bank A/S, said in a Bloomberg article. “The unemployment situation hasn’t deteriorated and the economic outlook has improved. As Spain’s funding plan today showed, their debt issuance is stabilizing. We think there is still room for their spreads to tighten further.”
- Ireland is set to sell its first long-term bond since paying off international bailout last month, Wall Street Journal Reports.
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Max Chen contributed to this article.