Germany's Historic Debt Deal!
Patrick Boyle On Finance
Patrick Boyle
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🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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European markets rallied sharply this week as German borrowing costs soared after the country’s new leaders announced a historic deal to loosen its “debt brake” rule to boost spending on defense.The interest rate on German government bonds saw their biggest daily increase since October 1998.The Dax 30 index, which tracks the largest German companies, rose by 3.5% as stock prices also leapt in other European markets amid hopes that a massive boost in European spending on defense and infrastructure would kickstart the region’s lagging economy.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance: https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC Ways To Support The Channel:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinanceBuy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/patrickboyle
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| 0:53.2 | German military spending has been in the news a lot in recent days, which isn't always a good |
| 0:59.4 | thing. The political parties that are expected to form Germany's next government agreed |
| 1:05.4 | this week to overhaul borrowing rules creating a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund, exempt defence |
| 1:13.3 | spending above 1% of GDP from Germany's strict constitutional borrowing limit and |
| 1:19.7 | loose and debt rules for states. This is a massive shift in spending to revamp the German |
| 1:26.2 | military and revive growth in Europe's largest |
| 1:29.2 | economy. America's turn away from its traditional allies towards Russia and its move away |
| 1:35.8 | from free trade may be the biggest shift in global trade relations since the collapse |
| 1:41.4 | of the Bretton Woods Agreement, according to Reuters, and may have sparked |
| 1:46.1 | the most dramatic shift in German fiscal policy since its reunification. |
| 1:51.7 | Friedrich Mertz, whose Conservatives won Germany's election last month, is planning to push |
| 1:57.2 | these spending changes through Parliament before new lawmakers take their seats |
| 2:02.1 | in a few weeks. This is a bit unusual as Mertz won't become Chancellor until then, but the |
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