Since the start of the year, benchmark indexes have risen 33percentt in Germany, 13percentt in France, 15percentt in Italy and 22percentt in Spain.
But by dint of the program's title, producers hint at the inherent brevity of the unions and buy into the notion of wives being 'traded up' at the seven -- or, in some cases, three -- year benchmark.
If it fails, it will not meet the 20-year benchmarks set by the California Department of Transportation in 2005, reported the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research group.
Yields on the 30-year benchmark bond jumped above 5%.
Less than two years ago, Spanish yields on 10-year benchmark bonds were above 7%.
Instead, it will distribute a new 10-year benchmark bond through a syndicate of banks.
On Thursday, Italy's 10-year benchmark yields broke above the 6 percent level for the first time since August.
The 10-year benchmark Treasury bond fell 3/32, to 103, while the yields rose to 3.27 percent from 3.26 percent late Thursday.
The yield on the existing Spanish 10-year benchmark bond rose 0.11 percentage point on Monday, to 5.409 percent.
Prices on Italian, Portuguese, Belgian, Irish and Spanish 10-year bonds rose sharply, while the safer German 10-year benchmark issue slipped a touch.
Prices on Italian, Portuguese, Belgian, Irish and Spanish 10-year bonds rose, while the German 10-year benchmark issue slipped a touch.
