GM Cobra and all
“PRESSURE ON ITALY IN EUROZONE STRUGGLE” last night’s FT report, summary:
“...EU leaders negotiated the three pillars of a package aimed at stemming the crisis. They agreed on the need for EU banks to find €108bn in new capital...Sunday night...17 eurozone leaders [could not reach a conclusion] on ... expand[ing] the .... EFSF – the eurozone rescue fund .... One plan would set up a special fund to attract global investors, including potentially the IMF, that would buy Italian bonds...The other [plan]... would guarantee against losses by bondholders....officials were negotiating with ... international banks to increase their contribution to a new rescue plan for Greece.... Without further cuts in repayments to bondholders, EU and IMF lenders will be saddled with €252bn in bail-out loans until... 2020, according to a confidential EU-IMF study. Negotiators said the two sides remained far apart.... The ...package [is]... supposed to be decided by twin EU and eurozone summits on Wednesday...”
Last night
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Also, see all yesterday’s/this morning’s zerohedge.com for their “take”