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To: MichiganBrew who wrote (28283)	1/8/2012 8:49:11 PM
From: Stan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 222734

Good point. There's a large number of bond auctions coming up over there in the next several months. Will they run out of bidders? I hope not, but it's looking tenuous with even ratings downgrades possible. This week will be telling. From a Jan 4th Reuters' article, While Germany's bond sale saw better demand than an auction in November that had raised fears the bloc's debt crisis was spreading to its strongest economy, rock-bottom yields kept some investors sidelined. France will add to the brisk start to the 2012 debt auction calendar by selling up to 8 billion euros of bonds on Thursday. But the key test of investor sentiment comes next week when Spain and Italy, the two countries most exposed to an escalation of the crisis, kick off their funding campaigns. Continued. . . reuters.com