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EGB SUMMARY
EGB SUMMARY: The Bund market weakened from the opening of European trade but its
was an orderly decline, initially pushed lower by some paying of 20Y and 30Y
swaps.
- However, around mid-morning the bottom fell out of the BTP market. We heard
that there was a large screen seller of the 5Y bmk, the Apr-22. Yet others told
us that an FT Alphaville article spoke of the dual currency ideas being
championed by some Italian politicians that MNI has been reporting on for a few
days. 
- A little later a 2266 Italian 10Y BTP futures block trade was seen and
reckoned to be a sale.
- The 10Y Bund-BTP spread widened 6.5bp this morning to 170bp and its largest
spread in just over a month.
- German debt has seen some very good buying against swaps this morning, mostly
in the Schatz.
- Datawise, the ZEW index confounded expectations and rose marginally to 86.7 in
August from 86.4 for the current situation. Expectations declined.

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