Italian Bond Risk Spikes To 30-Month Highs As Referendum Fear Batters Banks

The risk premium for Italian sovereign debt is soaring. As anxiety grows over the outcome of the referendum, the spread between
Bunds and BTPs has spiked over 50bps in the last week to its highest
since May 2014.
And as goes the sovereign, so goes the banks as the ECB-inspired domestic bond buying sprees have left them drastically underperforming and fearful that any uncertainty in government could undermine any implicit support they may still have.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 28, 2016.