BONDS popularity and BONDS trends

Spring has sprung and like Persephone loosed from Hades' bonds, our iPad app is now available to all and sundry. This app is literally years in the making and we have been back and forth and up and down regarding functionality, design, and look and feel for most of this month. I'm pleased to report, however, that it is ready to go, free, and fabulous. The app connects our blog content with liv...

Germany's opposition Social Democrats (SPD) scaled back its support for proposals to ease weaker euro zone states' financing costs, saying the common bonds championed by France were not a near-term option for tackling Europe's debt crisis.

Are euro bonds on the table?

Die Prioritäten der Investoren haben sich verschoben, denn Anleihen gelten nicht mehr als grundsicherer Hafen im Portfolio. Die Profis setzen lieber auf solide Aktien und haben Bonds von Unternehmen entdeckt.

United Technologies Corp. sold $9.8 billion in bonds, the biggest corporate-debt offering in three years, to help finance its takeover of aerospace parts maker Goodrich Corp.

China will allow small and medium-sized enterprises to sell bonds through private placements starting next month. 

Eurozone tensions rose again on Thursday with grim signals from business, and a rush for German bonds on the risk of chaos over Greece despite efforts by France and Germany to calm the crisis.

EU leaders wrapped up six hours of talks on the debt crisis early this morning with the German and French leaders acknowledging a deepening schism over the contentious question of jointly issued euro bonds.

Plans for June summit could include a path towards Europe-wide deposit guarantee scheme and, in longer term, eurozone bonds

GERMANY SOLD €4.56 billion of bonds carrying a 0 per cent coupon yesterday, its first sale of debt offering investors no regular return and underscoring its safe-haven appeal at a time of turmoil in the euro currency zone.

Ask Matt: When stocks drop, does the value of bonds increase and vice versa?

According to George Lazenby, some James Bond rites should remain sacred—like 007's love for vodka martinis. The actor who played the suave secret agent in 1969's On Her...

• Reuters says decision taken on Monday• David Cameron: Greek election is euro referendum• Markets gloomy ahead of EU summit• Germany sells bonds at record low yields• Papademos alarms traders with talk of Greek exit3.13pm: Greek prime Minister Panagiotis Pikramenos meet with Herman Van Rompuy earlier today, and here's a picture -- tweeted by the President of the European Council himself (or pe...

For the first time in more than two years of debt-crisis meetings, the leaders of France and Germany have not held their own mini-summit beforehand to agree positions, marking a significant shift in the traditional Franco-German axis.

Germany sold €4.56 billion of bonds carrying a zero per cent coupon today, its first-ever sale of debt offering investors no regular return and underscoring its safe-haven appeal at a time of turmoil in the euro currency zone.

ORF Funkhaus Wien (OTS) - Mittagsjournal / Mittwoch, 23.Mai 2012 12:00.00 Wetter - Jörg Stibor EU-Gipfel: OT Schäuble: Nein zu Eurobonds EU-Gipfel: Modgespräch Raimund Löw - Christian Williwald/ Raimund Löw EU-Gipfel: Was sind projektbezogende Bonds ? - Paul Schiefer Amnesty-Bericht …

Financial markets are back in the red as a plan to issue 'euro bonds' to combat the eurozone debt crisis appears dead before a crunch summit in Brussels has even begun.

Paris devrait interrompre son rebond à la suite du recul des marchés américains et asiatiques. Les investisseurs surveilleront le sommet informel de Bruxelles au cours duquel tous les sujets brûlants concernant la crise de la zone euro seront évoqués, et notamment l'adoption d'euro bonds, à laquelle l'Allemagne est opposée. 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European leaders will explore ways of breathing life into their stricken economies at a summit on Wednesday, but the issue of euro-zone bonds and whether they can help alleviate two years of debt turmoil will dominate the meeting.

A renewed call for bonds backed by the bloc is growing, but Germany said Tuesday that there was no way they would bend on collective debt.

A renewed call for bonds backed by the bloc is growing, but Germany said Tuesday that there was no way they would bend on collective debt.

A renewed call for bonds backed by the bloc is growing, but German officials said Tuesday that there was no way they would bend on collective debt.

BERLIN/PARIS  - Germany dismissed a French-led call for euro zone nations to issue common bonds, a day before a European Union leaders’ summit which investors are looking to for new measures to counter the bloc’s debt crisis.After a torrid week, stock markets rallied on optimism that the Wednesday summit would produce measures to foster growth and ward off the threat of ...

BERLIN/PARIS  - Germany dismissed a French-led call for euro zone nations to issue common bonds, a day before a European Union leaders’ summit which investors are looking to for new measures to counter the bloc’s debt crisis.After a torrid week, stock markets rallied on optimism that the Wednesday summit would produce measures to foster growth and ward off the threat of ...

BERLIN/PARIS  - Germany dismissed a French-led call for euro zone nations to issue common bonds, a day before a European Union leaders’ summit which investors are looking to for new measures to counter the bloc’s debt crisis.After a torrid week, stock markets rallied on optimism that the Wednesday summit would produce measures to foster growth and ward off the threat of ...

BERLIN — European leaders are set to descend on Brussels on Wednesday for a showdown over suggested drastic remedies for the region’s debt crisis, even as fresh signs emerge that Europe’s escalating woes could plunge the region into a recession capable of undercutting the global economic recovery. Read full article >>

Vom Treffen der Staatschefs der Eurozone erwarten Investoren an den Anleihemärkten wenig, und auch Bondkäufe der Fed sind alles andere als sicher.

Die USA gewähren China bisher unbekannte Privilegien beim Anleihenkauf: Das Land muss nicht von Banken ordern, sondern darf Bonds direkt beim US-Finanzministerium kaufen.

South Building Chicago, Illinois 3:26 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  Let me begin by saying thank you to my great friend, Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of the city of Chicago and to all my neighbors and friends, the people of the city of Chicago for their extraordinary hospitality and for everything that they’ve done to make this summit such a success.  I could not be pro...

SUNCORP will become the first regional bank in Australia to issue a covered bond in the next few weeks.

James Bond ist wieder da, wo er hingehört... im Zentrum der Zielscheibe. Sony Pictures hat ein neues Poster für Skyfall veröffentlicht, in dem Daniel...

The James Bond film series is celebrating its 50th anniversary with Skyfall, the 23rd official Bond movie. It's been four years since the last 007 film Quantum of Solace, and today the first teaser trailer for Skyfall has been released.

The US regulator is to allow Royal Bank of Canada to sell covered bonds into the US market as a normal public offering of securities

Before it could slip the surly bonds of earth and dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings, SpaceX's Falcon 9's early morning launch was unfortunately scrapped by Nasa today due to higher than normal pressure readings in its number five engine. More »

A Delhi court today granted bail to Luke Pomersbach and asked him to deposit two surety bonds of Rs 30,000 each. He was also asked to surrender his passport.

For most of the past 13 trading days — 12 of which have ended in the red for the Dow — investors could safely pin the blame for the market’s woes on Europe. Political uncertainty in Greece and weak Spanish bonds have dragged down global markets. European stocks ended the day down about 1% on [...]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Unable to shake their worries about Europe, investors drove stocks to a four-month low Thursday and piled into bonds, sending the yield on the 10-year Treasury note close to an all-time low....

Manchester United's quarterly figures have revealed their net debt has risen by £26m with total revenue down 5.8 per cent. The Glazers have spent £71m on bonds and interest.

The Asian Development Bank said Wednesday it had sold $339 million worth of bonds to help fund investment in more environmentally-friendly power projects in the region.

"The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls." -John Hersey Everyone (well, almost everyone) recognizes that radiation is bad for you. And the higher the energy of the ra...

A fragmentation of the euro zone would cast doubt on the legitimacy of the EU

Die Regierungsbildung in Griechenland ist endgültig gescheitert. Das Krisenland steuert auf Neuwahlen zu. Die Märkte reagierten prompt: Die Renditen für südeuropäische Bonds steigen, der Euro fällt, der DAX auch.

Former communications and information technology minister A Raja was granted bail by a CBI court in New Delhi today. The court granted bail to Raja on his furnishing personal and surety bonds of Rs 20 lakh each. The former minister was also directed not to visit Tamil Nadu without the court’s prior permission.

To Brooksley Born, JPMorgan Chase's trading blowup looks a lot like the Long-Term Capital Management debacle of 14 years ago.It's "happening all over again," Born told The Huffington Post on Monday. "We have to learn from these experiences, and we don't seem to be doing it yet."Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1996 to 1999, was one of the earliest observers to warn ab...

JAN MOIR: What I love most about Pudsey and Ashleigh is the innocence. In the end, it is all about a teenage girl, her pet dog and the deep bonds forged between them as they grow up together.

May 13 (Reuters) - Global commodity trading powerhouse Louis Dreyfus is set to issue bonds for the first time and may publicly list a Brazilian subsidiary as it prepares to step up acquisitions amid...

The No. 7 tends to carry a lot of nostalgia. It's the number Mickey Mantle wore. It's James Bond's employee number. It's the number of wonders in the world. And it's the number of luck, jackpots, Avengers and Harry Potter books.

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - A proposed plan by China's regulators could allow hedge funds, for the first time, to directly trade in mainland stocks and bonds, opening up one of Asia's biggest capital markets to the $2 trillion industry.

Petit coucou depuis l'aéroport direction Madère, où je vais faire mon grand retour sur le circuit après neuf mois d'absence à cause d'une blessure au poignet. Neuf mois c'est long. Une grossesse quoi ! Je fais des bonds dans tous...

The Blood Ties actress bonds with her boy Friday in New York City

Now is the time of the year when loonier adherents burst through the common old bonds of painting and sculpture and run amok, says Terry Wogan.

Clever platzierte Lotus einen Esprit vor Filmstudios. Prompt wurde der britische PS-Keil 1977 als Bond-Dienstwagen eingesetzt. Ein Verkaufshit wurde er dennoch nicht.

China's Ministry of Finance announced Friday that it will issue two batches of electronic savings bonds worth up to 30 billion yuan.

Like father, like son! Charlie Sheen's new TV show Anger Management will be premiering on FX in June and we're excited to see the MaSheen back on the air. As we've previously mentioned, his pops, Martin Sheen, is involved with the production — and Charlie is crazy excited! In the show, Charlie plays a former baseball player [...]

Yields on benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds are back below 2%. They really shouldn't be this low. Most fixed income investors agree that's the case. Yet, people keep clinging to long-term securities like Linus Van Pelt does to his baby blue security blanket.

Euro-zone convergence is in reverse: Spanish and Italian banks have developed an insatiable appetite for domestic government bonds, raising fears about the ever-closer ties between the sovereigns and their banks. But might it also make Spanish and Italian bonds safer?

Issues of Islamic bonds set to set new record this year with Dubai setting the pace.

(Reuters) - Stocks, bonds and other investments held by pension systems run by U.S. states and local governments jumped 10.6 percent in value to $2.7 trillion in 2010 after two back-to-back years of asset drops, the U.S. Census said on Monday.

Investment managers still leery of banks, bonds, slow-growing economy

The bonds and burdens of US presidents

April 24 (Reuters) - Marsh & McLennan will take a minority stake in Bermuda-based insurance asset manager Juniperus Capital, which specializes in catastrophe bonds and other capital markets insurance...

Italian police have arrested a 70-year-old man who was carrying billions of dollars worth of bonds used in a possible international financial scam.

Die Auktion lief besser als erwartet: Für rund 5,7 Prozent Zinsen hat sich Spanien frische Staatsanleihen verkauft - obwohl die Banken des Landes vor gravierenden Problemen stehen. Die Märkte reagieren erleichtert.  

John Paulson, the billionaire hedge fund manager who foresaw the collapse of the US housing market, is shorting German government bonds in a wager that the eurozone debt crisis will significantly deepen in the coming months.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Prosecutors said they might call former baseball players Barry Bonds and Jose Canseco, current baseball commissioner Bud Selig and New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman as witnesses in the Roger Clemens perjury case. The defense said it might call former Clemens teammates Paul O'Neill, Jorge Posada and Mike Stanton, and baseball writer Peter Gammons.

Fears are rising that Spain will be the next member of the eurozone to beg for a financial bailout - after the interest it pays on its 10-year government bonds rose to a year-long high.

JULIA Gillard's reversal on the carbon tax has broken her bonds with Australian voters.

Barry Bonds choked up on the bat and wound up with 762 home runs, but many of today’s players say that choking up sacrifices power.

Earlier this week it was reported that aerospace and defense firm Boeing is developing its own mobile phone for the James Bonds of the world …

BlackRock is planning to launch a trading platform this year that would let the world's largest money manager and its peers bypass Wall Street and trade bonds directly with one another.

The much-awaited revival plan for Air India is likely to be approved on Thursday by the cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA). Apart from restructuring its debt, which would ease its interest burden by almost Rs. 1,000 crore, the ailing national carrier may also be allowed to issue government-guaranteed bonds worth Rs. 7,400 crore.

“Your Brother. Remember?,” a good-humored exploration of brotherly bonds, is Zachary Oberzan’s latest DIY foray into pop culture.

MINISTER FOR Finance Michael Noonan has sold the German government bonds which he held last year, according to the Register of Interests of Members of Dáil Éireann.

The “Bernanke put” — the idea that the Ben Bernanke-led Federal Reserve will step in and buy more bonds if the stock market drops swiftly — is still very much in existence.

THE FORMER Anglo Irish Bank will be issued with Government bonds with a face value of €3.46 bilion as part of the deal to defer the €3.06 billion cash payment falling due on the State IOUs paying for the bailout of the bank.

Those who were long equities or short bonds from the start of the year are glowing. More sceptical investors are feeling very ill

New submitter AcMNPV writes "A news release from UCLA describes a new process for producing biofuels using microorganisms, electrical current and carbon dioxide (abstract). Quoting: 'Liao and his team genetically engineered a lithoautotrophic microorganism known as Ralstonia eutropha H16 to produce isobutanol and 3-methyl-1-butanol in an electro-bioreactor using carbon dioxide as the sole carbo...

AUSTRALIAN bond futures extended their rally on a weak night for global stock markets.

Chilean bank BCI will increase its capital by 44.6bn Chilean pesos (US$91mn) and return to the Mexican bond market, according to a release from the company. The capital will be raised by issuing bo...

The film's crew and designers spent months building the replica building in the middle of the English countryside to create the perfect mansion worthy of a secret agent.

Bonds, options, hedging, annuities — are you really equipped to make decisions on these strategies? Maybe you don't need a new strategy at all, just a pep talk, writes Linda Stern

Backers of a proposed initiative to block the California bullet train project received approval Friday from the secretary of state to collect signatures needed to place the measure on the November ballot. The initiative, which would stop the sale of state bonds to finance the project, is backed by state Sen. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) and former Central Valley congressman George Radanovich. The ...

The International Monetary Fund on Thursday approved (euro) 28 billion ($36.56 billion) in funding for crisis-hit Greece over the next four years, while Standard and Poor's warned that the country's new bonds remained vulnerable to default despite this month's massive debt writedown.

Telegraph View: Are 100-year bonds another gimmick ahead of the Budget?

Nach der wochenlangen Hängepartie ist es jetzt vollbracht: Das zweite Griechenland-Hilfspaket ist beschlossene Sache, und auch der dauerhafte Rettungsmechanismus für Euro-Staaten abgesegnet.Mehr zum ThemaStaatsanleihen - Großbritannien will 100-jährige Bonds verkaufenBörse am Morgen - Dax erneut über 7000 PunktenPleite-Konzern veröffentlicht Schließungsliste - Diese Schlecker-Filialen werden di...

Acetals are molecular substructures that contain two oxygen–carbon single bonds at the same carbon atom, and are used in cells to construct carbohydrates and numerous other molecules. A distinctive subgroup are spiroacetals, acetals joining two rings, which occur in a broad range of biologically active compounds, including small insect pheromones and more complex macrocycles. Despite numerous m...

GREECE has achieved the biggest ever debt writedown, swapping the bulk of its privately-held bonds with ones worth less than half.

Cabinet ministers hint at changes to energy regulation and ‘social impact bonds’ to fund social programs at Manning Centre conference

The stricken nation faced going bust had it not agreed with private investors holding Greek-law bonds to accept a face-value loss of 53.5 per cent in exchange for new bonds with more favourable repayment terms. It would have also cost the eurozone at least one trillion euros and sent shockwaves around the world.

Die Zeit wird knapp: Bis Donnerstagabend um neun Uhr abends können Griechenlands private Gläubiger dem geplanten Schuldenschnitt zustimmen. Für manche Bonds werden 75 Prozent Zustimmung benötigt, doch einen Tag vor Ablauf der Frist hat sich noch nicht einmal die Hälfte der Gläubiger beteiligt. Im Falle eines Scheiterns müsste Athen einen Verzicht erzwingen - und das ist sehr riskant.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican legislation to limit the Federal Reserve's mandate to fighting inflation would restrict the types of bonds the U.S. central bank could buy and potentially force sooner-than-expected sales of mortgage-backed securities.

Standard & Poor's downgraded Greece's credit rating Monday to "selective default" after the government took legal steps to impose losses on all holders of Greek government bonds.

Clare Rand embarks on an off-roading adventure in the land of ice and fire and visits the Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon whose bizarre frozen landscape provided the backdrop for Die Another Day.

Let’s try to make this as simple as possible. Money comes into the federal government through taxes and bonds. The vast majority of it is then spent on old-people programs, poor-people programs, and defense. Read full article >>

Italian police today seized $6 trillion in phony 1934 U.S. bonds that had been kept in bogus Federal Reserve security boxes in Switzerland.

Police have seized fake US Treasury bonds worth $6 trillion (£3.79trillion) from a Swiss company where they were held in three large trunks.

Italian police said today they had seized about $6 trillion of fake US Treasury bonds in Switzerland.

Let's face it, most animals get around. Only about 5 percent of mammals are considered to be monogamous . What a biologist means by monogamy is not necessarily what a marriage counselor might assume. In the animal kingdom, what we think of as commitment-type monogamy should really be separated out into at least three types of bonds, explained Diane Witt, who leads the Neural Systems Cluster ...

The ride is quiet, economy is reasonable and the suspension is soft but not so soft it sways in the corners.

Barry Bonds has federal approval to pickup a "dangerous weapon" -- namely, a baseball bat -- thanks to a new court order.Bonds is appealing his sentence for felony obstruction of justice -- but for now he's free on a few conditions ... one of which…

SHE helped search for Australia's Next Top Model - now Sarah Murdoch is on the hunt again - this time for the next Bonds Babies.

THE hotly-anticipated first official picture of Daniel Craig is out for his new James Bond movie Skyfall.

PRIVATE INVESTORS bought Irish Government bonds yesterday for the first time since September 2010. The National Treasury Management Agency sold just over €3.5 billion worth of three-year debt.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Q-Cells said it would restructure two convertible bonds and is trying to agree a partial repayment of a third, as the German solar company struggles to secure financing...

AUSTRALIAN bond futures have opened weaker as traders await key jobs data due later in the day.

THE Aston Martin DB5 will return in the next instalment of James Bond's adventures.

Here are a few things I know little about: gambling, horses, the manly bonds of career drinkers, the lonely hotel rooms of businessmen, and the sly mathematical ecstasy of statistics. In other words, I’m almost certainly not the critic to determine the authenticity of “Luck,” the . . .

Certains l'appellent Skippy ; d'autres préfèrent James, à cause des bonds. Eh oui, c'est bel et bien un kangourou (1) qui se balade en Avesnois. La Voix suit l'animal à la trace ; elle a déjà trouvé quelques crottes et, surtout, recueilli de nombreux témoignages...histoires liéesAu musée de Flandre, à Cassel : un art baroque accessible et familierReprise des interrogatoires cette semaineDavid R...

FOOTBALL'S first lady on 'handsome' Big Sam and bringing Billy Bonds out of retirement

Throw in a European debt crisis and all of the sudden the greenback is once again king currency.

It has been a wet week in Kolkata, but on the previous weekend, soggy nostalgia posed a serious challenge to the record rainfall. The Class of '61 met to commemorate the golden jubilee of their passing out of St Xavier's Collegiate School. Some of them hadn't seen each other since that rite of passage, and many had lost much more than their hair in the intervening years. The Blanco-ed canvas ke...

Investors seem reluctant to put their trust in the long-term bonds of many euro zone governments.

China needs to know how bonds, be they in euros or US dollars, are financed. These bonds cannot be used to bail out their troubled firms.

An independent panel says California lawmakers should not authorize $2.7 billion in bonds to build the initial section of the state’s high-speed rail system.

Inside Sport: both clubs considering issuing bonds to American investors to help fund new stadiums.

Photo: lunar caustic Is it any solace to sentimental mothers that their babies will always be part of them? I’m not talking about emotional bonds, which we can only hope will endure. I mean that for any woman that has ever been pregnant, some of her baby’s cells may circulate in her bloodstream for as [...]

Der Ökonom Paul Welfens plädiert für Bonds, die von der Europäischen Zentralbank ausgegeben werden. Der Grund sind zu hohe Zinsen gemeinsamer Staatsanleihen. mehr...

The Japanese kanji "kizuna", meaning bonds or connections between people, comes top of a public poll for the character that best sums up 2011.

US-Baseball-Star Barry Bonds hat offiziell Einspruch gegen das Urteil des Bundesgerichts in San Francisco eingelegt.

Barry Bonds appeals drug doping conviction

No jail time for baseball's home-run champ after lying to a grand jury in 2003

El pelotero fue sentenciado a 30 días de arresto domiciliario, dos años de libertad condicional y 250 horas de servicio comunitario; la aplicación se posterga mientras se da la apelación

Barry Bonds was sentenced to two years of probation and 30 days of home confinement for his felony conviction of obstructing justice,

New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Bonds.com Group, Inc. (OTC.BB:BDCG, "Bonds.com") gab heute bekannt, dass Michel Daher, Chairman von Daher Bonds Investment Company ("DBIC"), eine strategische Investition in Bonds.com getätigt hat. Weitere Investoren sind Mida Holdings ("Mida"), Oak Investment ...

President Jacob Zuma and his Mozambican counterpart Armando Guebuza have agreed to raise the status of the relationship between their countries.

KARACHI (APP) - The following rates will be applicable for conversion into rupees of Foreign Currency Deposits, Dollar Bearer Certificates, Foreign Currency Bearer Certificates, Special US Dollar Bonds and profits thereon by all banks and for providing Forward Cover on Foreign Currency Deposits (excluding F.E.25 deposits) by the State Bank… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

(Reuters) - Baseball home-run king Barry Bonds should spend 15 months in prison due to his conviction on a single criminal count related to an investigation over steroids in sports, U.S. prosecutors argued in a court filing.

In early December the ratio of public debt of the United States to GDP has reached 99.5%, which is the highest number since World War II. After placing another portion of the bonds at $160 billion, the U.S. will exceed this significant number. Rating agencies are willing to revise the U.S. credit scores

Die deutsche Bundesregierung hat am Montag einen Zeitungsbericht dementiert, wonach sogenannte "Elite-Bonds" besonders bonitätsstarker Euro-Länder erwogen würden. "Es gibt keine Elite-Bonds", erfuhr Reuters von einem Regierungsvertreter am Montag. Ein solches Instrument sei auch nicht in der Diskussion für Notfälle.

Netflix said it is selling about $200 million in convertible bonds to Technology Crossover Ventures, a venture-capital firm that has made late-stage investments in big tech companies including Groupon.

Fallende Renditen auf italienische Bonds und die Hoffnung auf eine neue Regierung hatten den Dax zunächst ins Plus gehievt. Doch der Index musste einen Großteil seiner Gewinne wieder abgeben - Schuld war ein Gerücht.

One of the shows they saw together was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The Duchess is keen to become a patron of the arts and will announce which causes she is supporting early next year.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided over the groundbreaking Monday of Manhattan's largest new construction project under his administration's housing plan. The mixed-use development at 550 W. 45th St. will take up almost an entire block in the Far West Side, and includes a 31-story tower. Here's what the project entails: 1,238: New apartments being built with half designated as "affordable" 2,500:...

Der neue EZB-Präsident Draghi lässt offenbar massiv Staatsanleihen aus Euro-Krisenländern kaufen. Wie die Bank mitteilte, waren es allein in Draghis erster Arbeitswoche Bonds im Wert von 9,5 Milliarden Euro. Laut Händlern intervenierte die EZB heute erneut an den Märkten - zugunsten Italiens.

The European Central Bank has raised the stakes in its bid to prevent a restructuring of Greek debt, telling eurozone governments it would refuse to accept Greek bonds as collateral in the event of such a move