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Bank bond purchases could deepen the crisis

Banks’ purchases of sovereign debt have helped to lower some euro-zone governments’ borrowing costs. But they cannot solve the broader debt crisis and may even deepen it by further increasing the inter-reliance of governments and their domestic banking sectors.

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