German backing for the issuance of joint euro zone bonds is no longer being categorically ruled out in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition, German daily Bild reported in an advance of an article to appear in its Thursday edition. The report was quickly rejected as wrong by several officials in Merkel's center-right coalition. The normally well-informed daily quoted parliamentary sources in the ruling coalition saying various scenarios are being discussed that could make German backing necessary for the common bonds the government has firmly rejected until now. "The German government could, for example, be ... (full story)