Assessing the implications of a joint EU fiscal response to the war

We doubt that news that the EU may fund increases in energy and defence spending on the back of the Russia-Ukraine war through joint debt issuance will mark a turnaround for the euro and euro-zone equities. But we think it adds to the reasons to think that the outlook for “euro-zone” peripheral government bonds has improved since the war started.

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