The unexpected departure of European Central Bank chief economist Jürgen Stark intensified investors' worries about the euro-zone financial crisis Friday and unleashed a broad pullback from risk in European financial markets on Friday, sinking the euro to its lowest level in more than six months, according to the folks at the Wall St Journal..
The cost of insuring European government debt against default rose to record highs as peripheral sovereign bond markets were hit by a fresh selloff, prompting the European Central Bank to step in again to support the market by buying Italian and Spanish government bonds. The cost of insuring European banks against default were also trading ...
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