Analysts price Spain rescue at 150-450 b euros

If Spain cries out for a financial rescue, analysts say the price could be 150-450 billion euros ($186-560 billion) or, in the most worrying case, simply “unknown territory”.

By (AFP)

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Published: Sun 3 Jun 2012, 3:52 PM

Last updated: Tue 7 Apr 2015, 11:10 AM

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s conservative government refuses even to countenance a bailout.

But markets are remorseless.

Ten-year government bond yields, or interest, pierced 6.7 percent this week. When compared with German debt, the extra rate charged on Spanish bonds hit 5.48 percentage points Friday, a euro-era record.

Latest figures showed a net 97 billion euros ($121 billion) of investors’ money fled Spain in the first three months of the year — the highest on record.


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