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EGB SUMMARY
EGB SUMMARY: Greece is the outperformer in the EGB space, with most core and
periphery instruments weaker early Monday.
- Jun 19 Bund futures are down 33 ticks at 166.01, albeit up from 165.68 low.
- 10-Yr Greek bonds vs Bund spread is in 4.7bps at 375.9bps, following through
from Friday's headlines that the gov't has reached an agreement on its second
post-bailout review, and one-year high in Greek manuf PMI.
- Italy, Spain, Portugal 10-Yr spreads to Germany relatively unchanged in
contrast; trading 0.5bps wider/narrower on the day.
- Jun 19 BTP future is down 27 ticks at 129.20 and OAT future down 46 ticks at
162.21, generally tracking Bunds lower.
- Eurozone PMI data leaked early, showed continued slowdown in March for the
most part vs both Flash and Median; March inflation also missed to the downside
(1.4% Y/Y vs 1.5% exp.; core was 0.8% vs 0.9% exp).
- ECB`s Guindos speaks in Brussels at 1300GMT/1400BST/1500CET (just a reminder
that the clocks changed on Sunday).

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