With Italian bond yields rocketing and European governments struggling to agree on a plan to raise finance, some have pinned their hopes on the ECB as possible lender of the last resort. While the Bank will continue to intervene in bond markets to try to prevent a further rise in yields, we doubt that it will take the bolder action that would be needed to bring borrowing costs down to sustainable levels.
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