The Bonds Of The Third Largest Austrian Bank Are Crashing
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
01/27/2015
Last year Austria’s largest bank, Erste Bank, sent shudders of Credit Anstalt through the European Banking System. This year it is Austria’s 3rd largest bank that is scaring investors senseless. On the heels of the Swiss National Bank’s decision to un-peg from the Euro, Raiffeisen Bank’s Swiss-Franc-Denominated mortgage worries have resurfaced (along with Russian/Ukraine writedowns) and nowhere is that more evident than the total collapse of the bank’s bonds (from over 95c to 65c today). Even after the ECB Q€ (and some apparent intervention to weaken the Swissy) bonds kept free-falling. Perhaps, The Freedom Party’s demands for a bailout will grow louder as the contagion concerns across Europe’s banking system explode…
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