Investors keener on lending to Portugal

Good news for the Portuguese government on Wednesday with a fall in the interest rates it had to offer to sell 1.5 billion euros of short term treasury bills, due to be paid back in three or six months.

However traders pointed out that volumes were extremely thin, indicating that broad sentiment on the junk-rated country was very fragile and could easily worsen again.

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