by John Galt June 13, 2012 05:10 ET Wow. From Bloomberg TV: 1 year (364 day) Italian bond auction this morning- on May 11th auction went off with a 2.34% yield This morning with a 3.972% yield. Can you smell the pizza burning in that Italian kitchen? They may have sold all €6.5 billion put out for bid, but to have yields blow out by over 1.6% is a failure in anyone’s book because it means that increasingly, investors…
By John Galt November 23, 2011 – 05:25 ET According to a breaking story this morning, the German 10 Year Bund auction was technically uncovered which is the same as: With only €3.6 billion purchased of €6 billion offered, I would call that the definition of epic failure. Now that the crisis has migrated into the heart of the Eurozone, watch out for pissed off German bankers taking revenge out on the PIIGS. The yields are creeping up slightly but the Euro has just absolutely…
By John Galt September 13, 2011 – 05:30 ET So much for the ChiComs bailing another PIIGS nation out. Results from today’s Italian bond auction: Yield results were 5.60%, highest on record with a horrid 1.27 bid to cover. But don’t worry, the results are transitory and the situation is contained to Europe. For now.
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