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Why eurozone markets have mispriced bonds

COMMENTARY:It is widely acknowledged that eurozone markets underestimated sovereign risk before the financial crisis. By all accounts, they're now overestimating it.
25 Jan 2012 4:12 PM

Minchin against auto industry cuts: report

Ex-Howard minister warns of sovereign risk issue.
18 Jan 2012 7:38 AM

Breaking free of Europe's bonds

COMMENTARY:For too long, European leaders have been acting in the interest of banks under the banner of saving the euro. If things are going to change, however, the link between sovereign and bank debt must be broken.
12 Jan 2012 4:00 PM

A historic case for eurobonds

COMMENTARY:History shows every rise of a political power has been matched by its proper financial instrument of sovereign debt. It's time the eurozone followed suit.
11 Jan 2012 3:45 PM

A calculated risk for banking

COMMENTARY:As international regulators push ahead with Basel III reforms, the eurozone must face up to the fact that risk-free sovereign debt is a myth, and real high-quality capital may be thin on the ground.
9 Jan 2012 4:38 PM

European shares fall; euro hits 16-month low

Rising sovereign yields raise funding concerns.
6 Jan 2012 1:37 PM

Top ten charts of 2011

COMMENTARY:The last year was all about sovereign debt, house prices and volatile markets. And check out the Fed Gloomy Words Index and a curious demographics-to-share prices parallel.
30 Dec 2011 6:53 AM

An ECB weapon guaranteed to work

COMMENTARY:The only way to provide the liquidity firewall Europe needs is through a sovereign guarantee program. But the ECB must act quickly, as time is running out.
15 Dec 2011 10:30 AM

Europe's new CDO with a twist

COMMENTARY:The eurozone appears set to repackage a failed plan to solve its sovereign debt problem, but with investors avoiding eurozone bonds like the plague, it has little hope of working.
30 Nov 2011 9:55 AM

A trio of eurozone challenges

COMMENTARY:There are a range of explanations for the spreads of eurozone sovereign debt, but it comes down to three challenges which to be addressed and three lessons to be learned if the union is to stay together.
24 Nov 2011 9:45 AM

Europe's hidden doomsday machine

COMMENTARY:All eyes may be on the eurozone's spiralling sovereign debt crisis, but in the background a potentially more destructive balance of payments crisis is escalating.
22 Nov 2011 10:35 AM

Hostage to a eurobond future

COMMENTARY:Europe's sovereign bond market effectively imploded last week, leaving the region with no option but to embrace eurobonds. The crisis, however, may be moving too fast.
14 Nov 2011 10:05 AM

The market's big fat Greek failure

COMMENTARY:Historically, the market has had little trouble distinguishing between good and bad sovereign debt, so why did it fail so spectacularly in the case of Greece?
8 Nov 2011 9:50 AM

Buying time for a real eurozone breakthrough

COMMENTARY:Europe's leaders have agreed on a response to the region's sovereign debt and allied banking crisis, but while the decision was significant in averting immediate disaster, it only marks the beginning of a long road to a very different eurozone.
28 Oct 2011 10:35 AM

A European bank value riddle

COMMENTARY:With European banks trading well below their book values, investors nevertheless remain sceptical because the values of their sovereign bonds are unknown.
20 Oct 2011 10:30 AM

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National Sovereign Debt and Government Bonds

Sovereign Debt is the money owed to holders of government bonds while a Sovereign Debt Rating is an assessment of the likelihood that a government will default on its debt obligations.

During the Global Financial Crisis there was a high likelihood that many nations were going to default on their debt obligations.

Read commentary on the nations in the Euro zone most affected (Iceland, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain), implications of the US monetary policies and their China debt obligations.

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