THE EU IS COLLAPSING.
Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB: ""We are not here to" close the spreads.There are other tools and other actors to manage these issues."
Her comment has just greatly increased the risk that the Covid-19 shock will generate a euro crisis.
Italy's benchmark stock index closed nearly 17% lower.
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The expression "closing the spread" means keeping the yield on government bonds under control, so that the cost of debt does not explode for a country with fragile public finances (this is the case for Italy, for example). And it is exactly the opposite of Mario Draghi's "Whatever it Takes", that commitment of 2012 to do "whatever it takes" to preserve the euro when the market aimed at Italy and Spain in the expectation that the single currency would be gone to pieces.
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>https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/11/investing/stock-futures-coronavirus-trump/index.html
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