Perhaps surprisingly, Germany's DAX index was the weakest in Europe today as the Russia-Ukraine debacle escalates, underperforming high-beta "safe-havens" like Spain and Italy (which also fell rather notably). Despite the 2.5% to 3% declines across all major European equity markets, sovereign bond spreads barely budged! Seriously, Italian and Spanish bond spread rose a mere 5bps on the day. European banks collapsed 3.6%, its biggest drop in 6 months. EURCHF continues to collapse, now at 14 month lows (-200 pips today) as 2Y Swiss rates close at -11.4bps (the lows of 2014).
Germany was the worst of the major European indices...
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...led by a collapse in banks...
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Charts: Bloomberg