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EGB SUMMARY: EGBs have weakened slightly to open the week, with periphery

spreads slightly wider.

- The German Bund curve is a little steeper, with 2-yr yields up 0.2bps at

-0.648%, 10-yrs up 0.3bps at 0.308%, and 30-yrs up 0.4bps at 0.974%.

- Italian BTP yields are wider still, with 2-yr spreads over Bunds out 0.9bps at

194.8bps, and 10-yrs out 1.1bps at 282.7bps. The spread widening move comes

after significant narrowing at the very end of last week.

- The rest of the periphery is trading mixed, with Spain 10s out 0.4bps vs

Bunds, Portugal 0.4bps narrower. 

- Greece trading flat vs Bunds on a day in which Greece has officially concluded

its ESM programme.

- The Euribor futures strip is largely unchanged, some 0.5 tick drops seen in

Green and Blue contracts.

- Light EMU data this week until PMIs on Thursday. Attention today on Bundebank

board member Johannes Beerman`s speech at Buba forum at 1600GMT, and later on

ECB Weidmann at Central Bank Research Association at 1800GMT.