MADRID (AP) — Spain raised nearly euro4 billion ($5.5 billion) Thursday in bonds in an auction that showed good investor interest despite the turmoil hitting markets on the fringes of the eurozone.
The government meanwhile moved on two other fronts — tax policy and labor market reform — to try to chip away at the budget deficit and a 21 percent unemployment rate.
The Finance Ministry said it sold euro3.95 billion in bonds of three different maturities, just shy of the euro4 billion ceiling the government had set.
These bonds, which mature in July 2019 and April and October of 2020, were an installment of a 10-year issuance carried out months ago. So yields in Thursday's …
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