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EGBs-GILTS CASH CLOSE: Peripheries Bear Brunt Of Risk Aversion

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Bunds and Gilts are modestly stronger on the day but yields came off lows even as equities dropped hard on renewed European COVID lockdown fears. Germany's Merkel announced a month-long lockdown and France's Macron is expected to announce similar this evening.

UK/German curves flattened but closed well off flattest levels of the session. A clearer reflection of global risk-off was in periphery yields: Greek 10-Yr spreads blew out nearly 15bps.

ECB meeting will be the focal point Thursday. Closing Levels / 10-Yr Periphery EGB Spreads:

  • Germany: The 2-Yr yield is down 1.5bps at -0.789%, 5-Yr is down 1.1bps at -0.813%, 10-Yr is down 1bps at -0.625%, and 30-Yr is down 1.9bps at -0.215%.
  • UK: The 2-Yr yield is down 1.3bps at -0.062%, 5-Yr is down 1.8bps at -0.072%, 10-Yr is down 1.9bps at 0.213%, and 30-Yr is down 2.6bps at 0.754%.
  • Italian BTP spread up 7.5bps at 139bps
  • Spanish bond spread up 3bps at 80.3bps
  • Portuguese PGB spread up 2.9bps at 77.5bps
  • Greek bond spread up 14.9bps at 169.6bps

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