Investors are charging a risk premium of about 330 basis points to buy Greek 10-year debt rather than benchmark German bonds.
Italy, which is combating the cost of paying the rising returns that investors demand to hold its debt rather than benchmark German bonds, could also be in focus at the ministers' meeting this week.
The premium that investors demand for holding Greek bonds rather than benchmark German Bunds narrowed on media reports or rumors of an imminent European bailout, or of Chinese interest in Greek debt.
But investors, who are worried about the risk that Athens may be overwhelmed by a debt burden that is projected to hit 120 percent of gross domestic product this year, are charging a steep premium to buy Greek bonds rather than benchmark German bunds.
Overall, the results of these studies provide some guidance for clinicians, but, at present, practitioners should view these instruments as supplemental resources rather than benchmarks for assessment.
The risk premium investors demand to hold peripheral euro zone government bonds rather than benchmark German Bunds fell to two-week lows as expectations of a bolder-than-expected Brussels deal took hold.
As he has since he arrived, Mr. Crocker tried to change the terms of the debate, suggesting that Congress should focus on the informal ways that Iraq was improving, rather than specific benchmarks or deadlines.
However, we felt it was more meaningful to frame our findings in a realistic context, rather than to benchmark against a naive statistical model that simply predicted the majority class for all observations.
