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"Many investors thought they were buying German bunds with a bit of free yield, " says one fund manager.

Asian investors are looking at it (the euro zone crisis) and saying that they want to be out of euro assets, and even Bunds.

Buying Treasuries, bunds or gilts provides a bit of insurance against this risk.

Spreads between these distended borrowing costs and those on German bunds have widened to more than 4%; a year ago they were around 1%.

You have to convert them back at the money exchange of the airport or the Bank of China at the Bunds.

'At the moment they are still preferring safe havens like bunds, given all the nervousness in neighboring states. '

The rise in the yield, which follows a decline in the price, were in line with a decline in German bunds, another safe-haven asset.

The spread over benchmark German Bunds slipped to 306 basis points, the tightest in more than a week.

Investors have bought Bunds heavily recently as they moved out of peripheral eurozone debt.

Yields on German bunds and British gilts have fallen below the rate of inflation due to investors' flight to safety.

One explanation was that in skittish markets Bunds were prized for their extra liquidity.

The spreads over Bunds of these issuers widened sharply this past week and weighed on the euro.

But remember that 6 per cent would be a spread of less than 3 percentage points over German bunds.

Investors scrambled into the havens of US and German government bonds with yields on Treasuries and Bunds dropping to seven-month lows.

This optimism is seen in lower European CDS and narrowing interest rate spreads between peripheral countries and German Bunds.

The spread over Bunds for Italian, Spanish and Irish bonds also widened dramatically before narrowing again more recently.

Yield spreads on Greek and Irish bonds reached record highs over German Bunds on concerns about public finances in those countries.

Spreads between ten-year Greek bonds and benchmark German bunds the day before spiked to nearly seven percentage points.

The evidence we have is that the planned fiscal tightening secured but a modest reduction in interest spreads over German bunds.

Worries over Greece and its economic toll on Europe have spurred bids for Treasuries, Bunds and other low-risk assets.

Eventually this senior debt could perhaps be issued at levels even lower than current single tier German Bunds.

Targeting the spread between German bunds and other eurozone bonds would also significantly undermine the ECB's independence.

With the exception of The Netherlands and Finland, all other euro zone countries' debt spreads to Bunds are above 30 bps.

Along with the dollar and yen, U. S. Treasurys, German bunds and U. K. gilts, all classic safety plays, jumped higher.

Both Spanish and Portuguese bond prices fell sharply Tuesday, and the yields above German bunds rose to records.

Spreads over German bunds reached 3 percentage points, a euro-era record, before coming down a little.

The Swiss franc reached an all-time high against the euro and yields on ten-year German Bunds dropped to an eight-month low of 2. 6%.

In fact, spreads over bunds have stabilised since February and fallen by just 0. 2 percentage point since the election.

However, the interest rate premium demanded by investors in 10-year Greek bonds over German bunds has stabilised this week.

Yet everyone knows that Greek government bonds are far riskier than German Bunds.

Money is being withdrawn from the periphery and reinvested in US Treasuries, German bunds, and even British gilts.

The premium demanded by investors to hold the country's debt over German bunds rose to 1 percentage point.

Spreads on Italian and Greek debt over German bunds have widened sharply.

Now, there could be a new worry in German Bunds.

Markets agree: spreads over Bunds have barely fallen.

And this week, an auction of German government Bunds flopped.

Some German IOUs were unsold, and prices of bunds are slipping.

There are numerous sites in India, China, and Japan which are called "bunds" .

we will use this opportunity to carry out maintenance of the collection , such as repairing any leaks in the bunds.

Our conclusion is that Bunds and Dollar Index are headed higher into Monday of next week and probably much longer.

Put another way, its 340 basis point spread over Bunds is the widest in the euro era.

At the 'wides' the bonds were yielding nearly 700 basis points more and similar maturity in bunds. We think both are money good. '

Worse, spreads on Spanish and Italian 10-year bonds over German bunds have reached 328 and 296 basis points, respectively.

German ten-year Bunds rose to 3%, a yield not seen since May.

Yields on bonds of the Netherlands rose 0. 09 percentage point on Tuesday, rising to 0. 626 percentage point above bunds.

The dollar and bunds rose.

U. S. Treasuries yield 2. 03 percent, while German bunds, seen as the European benchmark, are 1. 82 percent.

Spanish 10-year bond yields have climbed above 4 per cent at auction and are 137 basis points above bunds.

So are measures of investor fear, such as European bond spreads over German bunds.

Yields on German 10-year bunds, the benchmark for Europe, fell 10 basis points to 3. 16 per cent while equities were battered.

The spread of ten-year bonds against bunds widened by 0. 16 percentage points, to 1. 43 points.

The interest-rate spread on its five-year government bonds widened to a record 4. 1 percentage points over German bunds.

This dilemma is bearish for Bunds, he added, adjusting his forecast for yields for end-2011 from 1. 75 per cent to 2. 25 per cent.

Ten-year Italian bond yields rose back above 6%, with the spread over German Bunds reaching a record euro-era high.

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