Eurozone yields firm as French unrest widens spread risk - Yahoo Finance Australia

Investing.com - Eurozone government bond yields held near elevated levels on Monday, with French short-dated paper coming under pressure as severe social unrest in Paris heightened fiscal and political risk premiums across the single-currency bloc. French front-end yields pushed higher, with the policy-sensitive two-year note yield rising to 3.603%. Meanwhile, the benchmark French 10-year yield held largely steady at 4.812%, maintaining a wide risk spread over core German paper. Benchmark German sovereign paper reflected a more consolidated tone 10-Year Bund Benchmark: Germany's 10-year yield - the risk-free benchmark for the euro area - was virtually unchanged at 3.412%. The two-year German yield ticked up slightly to 3.