French 10-Year Bond Yields Hit 5%, Highest Since 2002
Investors are demanding a bigger premium as protests, budget deadlock and a looming Moody's decision add pressure on France's finances.
- On Wednesday, France's benchmark 10-year government bond yield briefly crossed the 5% threshold for the first time since 2002, marking a new 24-year high amid multiple crises.
- The French Government is struggling to pass a federal budget through a divided parliament as market pressure for fiscal consolidation mounts in response to swelling national debt and wide deficits.
- France's 10-year OAT reached 5.002% before settling at 4.9794%, while investors demanded a premium of around 157 basis points to hold French bonds over benchmark 10-year German Bunds.
- Widespread protests against the "high cost of living" erupted across France, with violent clashes occurring in Marseille on Oct 17, 2026, reflecting public dissatisfaction over economic pressures.
- Developed market governments face mounting pressure from rising global bond yields driven by energy price surges, while uncertainty ahead of next year's hotly contested French election compounds market concerns.
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On Wednesday late in the morning, France briefly borrowed at a rate of more than 5% over ten years. Never seen since 2002.
The cost of the French debt is rising sharply and the gap with Germany is widening. Investors sanction an accumulation of budgetary, political and economic risks. For a state that has to refinance several hundred billion euros each year, the movement is no longer an abstract one. The question was asked frontally Wednesday morning on BFM [...] Read more Debt: Are markets starting to attack France? appeared first on Causeur.
French bonds ' 10-year return exceeded 5% for the first time since 2002, amid protests over the cost of living, inflationary fears and rising energy, increasing borrowing costs and pressures on the French economy.
Around 10:00 in Lisbon, France's interest at ten years rose to 5.08%, but hour and a half later fell to 4.992%, after having finished at 4.929% on Tuesday.
France's 10-year-old state bonds rose by more than 5% on Wednesday for the first time since 2002, indicating growing investor doubts about the country's ability to improve public finances, written The Wall Street Journal.
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