European PIGS must face the fire … again.
Once upon a time, European PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) saw incredible spikes in their sovereign yields related to Greek credit default contagion. But the European Central Bank (ECB), World Bank (WB), International Money Fund (IMF) rose to the rescue.
But here we go again! Thanks to rising inflation, the ECB is threatening to remove the massive monetary stimulus. Sound familiar??
Here are the Eurozone 10-year sovereign yields as of this morning. Greece is up a whopping 27.4 basis points, Italy is up 11.7 BPS, Portugal is up 9.3 BPS and Spain is up 9.2 BPS. The core of the Eurozone, France and Germany, are up 4.3 and 3.0 BPS, respectively.
Germany has REAL 10Y Bunds yields of -4.7%.
Like the USA, the Eurozone Taylor Rule is much higher than the ECB’s Main Refinancing rate of 0%..
Here is ECB’s Christine Lagarde saying “What, me worry??”
