Investors force a Eurobond rethink
Last year was a difficult one for the capital markets. Western European and American investors realized – or remembered – that lending to fast-growing economies has dangerous drawbacks, especially where their political and economic systems are not based on sound foundations.
After Asia in 1997 it was the turn of Russia to be in turmoil last summer and investors started to look back to developed markets with greater interest, just as Europe was embarking on a new economic and political era with the introduction of the single European currency, the euro.
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The market wobbles of the autumn shook confidence in borrowers across the credit spectrum.
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