Bond Market to Periphery Politicians: You Don't Matter

And it seems it is right. For now.
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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On Thursday last, Ireland sold 10-year debt into the market at a record-low yield of 0.817 percent.

In a world of negative interest rates and central bank buying this might not seem that much of a surprise, but there are two factors that you would expect the bond market to take account of when pricing Irish debt.