Everything Falls On Debt Concerns

25 Mar

From Bloomberg:

March 24 – Treasuries, the euro, stocks and commodities slid as a downgrade of Portugal’s debt and weaker- than-forecast demand in a U.S. bond auction added to concern governments will struggle to fund swelling deficits.

Greece “is going to default at some point,” and Europe’s failure to answer that challenge will hurt the common currency, UBS Investment Bank’s London-based deputy head of global economics, Paul Donovan, said in an interview on Bloomberg Radio. “If Europe can’t solve a small problem like this, how on earth is it going to solve the larger problem, which is the euro doesn’t work,” he said.

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