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EGB SUMMARY: Some of the overnight headlines for UK morning session, beside the

virus of course were the Irish Elections, 

-Sinn Fein was on the brink of a historic election victory last night in which

the republican party could enter government in the Irish Republic for the first

time. With all 39 constituencies reporting results Sinn Fein had secured 24.5

per cent of first-preference votes and was ahead of both main centrist parties 

-EGBs have mostly carried on from their London morning session, ie better bid on

any potential contagion risk and the poor EU national data of late. 

-Flow and colour were widely mixed with correlation across asset out of the

windows, -Peripheral spread are flat to a touch wider, with Italy under

performing Bunds and 2.4bps wider on the day.

 -Speakers and Data are starting to kick in from tomorrow onward. - Bund futures

are up 0.32 today at 174.50 

- BTP futures down -0.06 at 147.81 

- OAT futures up 0.37 at 166.96.