While the recent financial market meltdown has pushed some euro-zone government bond spreads up, we don’t see good reasons for risk sentiment to remain so downbeat. So we expect the upward pressure on those spreads to ease soon. But we think the relief will be only temporary in the case of France, Italy and Belgium, and continue to expect domestic headwinds to push spreads there up in the medium term.
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