What would a day be without recycling of tired and expired rumors out of Europe. Sure enough:
- EFSF PROVISIONAL CREDIT LINE COMPROMISE BETWEEN MADRID AND BERLIN
- EFSF is to prepare a credit line for Spain in the case of need - Dow Jones
- EFSF provisional credit line for Spain is one option according to a German newspaper
Ah, the good old EFSF, which was last summer's magical bailout mechanism which with 3-4 turns of leverage, would bring the total to €1 trillion... until the realization that there is nothing to lever, as nobody (except for Japan occasionally) wanted to put any money in it. Oh well: the rumor is good to get stocks into the green for at least a few minutes.
But at least we now know that Spain will be paying to bail out itself. Just wait until it is Italy's turn next.
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Source: EFSF [6]
Finally, here, ONCE AGAIN FOR THE CHEAP EUROCRAT SEATS, is the real math:
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So €200 billion in EFSF funding capacity, and...
If a Spanish EU/IMF bailout package covered the government’s gross funding needs through the end of 2014, and included €75bn for bank recapitalisation, then it would amount to around €350bn.
At least according to JP Morgan [8]. Last we checked €350 > €200