EWQ iShares MSCI France ETF

$EWQ $EZU France’s 10y swap spread (swap fixed rate minus OAT yield). Deeply negative levels near -143 bp mean French government bonds yield far more than the swap curve. This flags acute market stress over Frances fiscal path, debt absorption, and credit risk amid recent budget doubts and widening OAT-Bund spreads to euro-crisis highs.

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$EWQ Four days ago this post was about France borrowing more than Italy for the first time since 2012. The stress has moved up a gear since. The 10-year touched roughly 5% this week, its highest since 2002, after the biggest quarterly rise in nearly four decades. Now it’s the spread telling the story. French borrowing costs are about 140 to 150 basis points above Germany’s, the widest since the 2011-2012 debt crisis. France is starting to price like the periphery it once backstopped. The arithmetic stays hostile: a record 340 billion euros of borrowing planned for 2027, and the fiscal watchdog calls the government’s assumptions optimistic. Tracking whether the spread keeps widening into April’s elections.

$EWQ France now pays more to borrow than Italy. That has not happened since 2012. Wednesday morning the French 10-year yielded 4.772% against Italy's 4.559%, a 21bp gap in Italy's favor (per CNBC data). France's spread over Bunds crossed 100bp for the first time since 2012, roughly double where it started the year. The arithmetic: debt at 119.3% of GDP in 2026, the highest France has recorded since 1978, with a 5.1% deficit against the EU's 3% cap. ING estimates interest payments alone will run about 5 billion euros higher in 2026 and 7 billion higher in 2027 than projected a year ago. That is the loop: higher yields inflate the interest bill, which makes the 54 billion euros of cuts the government is trying to pass harder to achieve. The market is repricing French credit itself.