Who owns France’s debt, and will they stick around?
The large share of French government bonds held outside the euro-zone arguably makes France more vulnerable than Italy or Spain to a sharp rise in yields if its fiscal woes worsen. But we think demand from euro-zone investors would probably still prove resilient. What’s more, the risk of a “doom loop” of higher yields emerging from linkages between the French financial system and government looks low.
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