Investors will begin to follow Italy’s politics again
What an end to quantitative easing means for Italian debt
Ms Lagarde emphasised the bank’s philosophy of “flexibility”, in the name of ensuring that borrowing costs in weaker (ie, southern) parts of the euro area do not deviate too much from those for the rest of the bloc.
In 2018 the formation of a populist coalition led the spread between Italian and German bond yields to double within days to nearly three percentage points. The fate of Italian bonds, in other words, ultimately rests with Rome.
The Economist 23 April 2022
What an end to quantitative easing means for Italian debt | The Economist
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