Last week saw markets respond fairly positively to the ECB’s bond purchases and Spanish and Italian bond yields fell sharply from dangerously high levels. At the same time, though, France has been dragged into the crisis, with worries about the effect of bail-outs and the vulnerability of the banking sector leading to fears that it might soon lose its AAA credit rating.
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