Il fate of Greece returns to put anxiety on the markets and affects the spread volatility. The spread between Greek and German stocks shot up above 1000 bas pointsand influencing it as well btp bund spread.
In the morning, in fact, there was a real blaze that brought the differential between Italian 10-year bonds and German bonds at 142 points. At 12,15 the spread repositioned itself again to 125 basis points after also falling below 120 points.
Meanwhile, from Athens they ensure that today the payment of the 200 million euro loan received from the International Monetary Fund. It must be said that today's deadline did not represent a problem while there are strong concerns about the ability of the Greek government to make the payment of 760 million to the IMF which expires on 12 May.
