The run of ten-year BTP rates does not stop, which, at 10.50 am Italian time, jumped up to 3.89%, now close to the 4% threshold, and to the record since 2014. Focus on the surge that also affects interest rates German Bunds, with two-year bunds that exceeded the 1% threshold for the first time in more than a decade, or since 2011, a year infamous for the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. which was jeopardizing the very survival of the euro. Investors are generally discharging sovereign debts, after Christine Lagarde’s ECB last Thursday said it was ready to raise rates, promising a
an anti-spread anti-financial fragmentation shield of the euro, but only in words. The BTP-Bund spread travels around 233 basis points, according to the latest Bloomberg surveys, the highest since May 2020.