Europe’s debt summit fails to halt rise in borrowing costs
• washingtonpost.comWorld investors pushed up borrowing costs for Italy and Spain on Monday, and the Moody’s ratings agency threatened a new downgrade of euro-zone governments as analysts digested the outcome of last week’s European summit.
The summit’s ambitious plan to tame government debt in the future provided little reassurance on a
more short-term issue: whether Italy and Spain can finance themselves in
the coming months and make good on the mountain of debt they have
accumulated.
The two nations between them need to refinance more than $300 billion in
bonds that are coming due in the next six months — part of a worldwide
flood of government debt that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned
may already be driving up interest rates as countries compete for
funding amid historically high levels of public borrowing.
Wolfgang Franz, head of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's council of economic advisers, talks about fiscal union in the euro zone. He speaks from Mannheim, Germany, with Maryam Nemazee on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse." George Magnus, senior economic adviser at UBS AG, also comments in this report.
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