And yay verily there was much rejoicing that Italy managed to sell a few billion euros worth of its sovereign debt to its banking system (albeit at the highest accepted yield since October 2012). However, the rejoicing was hardly effusive as bonds and stocks gained only marginally, buoyed by catch-up from yesterday's US equity markets. Swiss 2Y rates remain at zero and EUR-USD basis swaps came back a little but overall this bounce is nothing to celebrate with Italian 10Y spreads still 47bps wider on the week and Spain 23bps wider. Italian stocks outperformed credit, now down 2.6% on the week as Europe's VIX followed US down but remains above Monday's close at 22%. EURUSD ran up to test the 1.3130 stops and faded back to its comfort zone around 1.3100. As a reminder, *European bank spreads are holding at their widest in 3 months and point to notably weaker prices in European financial stocks* (were of course they allowed to trade in a free non-short-sale-banned market).European credit market remain considerably less sanguine than stocks - especially in financials...
but today was small gains for the high-beta segments of Europe - though in context no BTFD mentality came soaring back...
Charts: Bloomberg Reported by Zero Hedge 13 hours ago.