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Saturday, July 10, 2010

WSJ: "$1.65 trillion Euro zone bank debt coming due in 2010 and 2011"

by Calculated Risk on 7/10/2010 01:50:00 PM

From Mark Whitehouse at the WSJ Real Time Economics: Number of the Week: Euro Zone Debt Is Coming Due (ht jb)

$1.65 trillion: Euro zone bank debt coming due in 2010 and 2011.
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As investors fret about European banks’ exposures to Greece and other financially troubled countries, those banks’ borrowing costs are rising sharply. ... This year and next, some $1.7 trillion in euro-area bank debt will come due, far more than among banks in the U.S., the U.K. or elsewhere.
The results of the stress tests will be released on July 23rd.