Economic and financial indicators

摘要

It was a bumpy week for European bond markets. The yield on Greece's 10-year bonds fell to 6.02% on February 10th, and the spread between those bonds and benchmark German bunds narrowed to 282 basis points, the Lowest since January 19th, as hints from the European Union suggested thataid might be forthcoming if the Greek government stuck to plans to cut its budget deficit from 12.7% of GDP.The yield on bunds fell to 3.11% on February 5th, before rising to 3.20% on February 10th.