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Strong open after S&P affirm Italy rating

BTPS

It has been a strong start to the session for BTPs after S&P affirmed Italy's rating at BBB after the market close on Friday and raised the outlook to stable from negative.

  • BTP futures have jumped around 80 ticks to 149.90 at the time of writing.
  • Our technical analyst notes that this puts the focus on 150.46 - the high of 16 October and the bull trigger.
  • 10-year spreads to Bunds has fallen just over 5bp from Friday's close to 128bp at the time of writing. This is down from last week's high of 138.3bp but still some way off the low of 120.3bp seen on 14 October.

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