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French Bond Risk Hits Euro-Crisis Levels

Bloomberg2 October 2026, 15:38 UTCFrance

French government bonds deepened this week’s slump, with investors demanding the biggest yield premium to hold the bonds over safer German debt since the region’s debt crisis. Huw van Steenis, Partner at Apollo, discusses this as well as the overall European economic outlook. (Source: Bloomberg)

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