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Rajoy to Unveil Deepest Spanish Budget Cuts in 30 Years

From bloomberg.com

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will unveil the most austere budget since before Spain’s return to democracy in 1978, risking a deeper recession in a bid to avoid succumbing to Europe’s debt crisis. “There’s interest in seeing how they are going to manage this particular trick of cutting the budget so aggressively,” said Harvinder Sian, an interest-rate strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in London, during a telephone interview. “The recession will be dramatic.” The yield on Spain’s 10-year bond has risen 61 basis points since March 2 when Rajoy unilaterally raised his deficit goal for 2012, as a deepening ... (full story)

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