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Greek Debt Rallies as Merkel Seeks Compromise on Loans

German Chancellor plans to work with ECB to resolve crisis.

By Lukanyo Mnyanda , Keith Jenkins, Bloomberg | Updated on June 17, 2011

Greek two-year notes surged, driving yields lower for the first time in nine days, after Chancellor Angela Merkel retreated from German demands that bondholders be forced to bear a “substantial” share of a new rescue.

Ten-year Greek yields also slid. Merkel will work with the European Central Bank to resolve the crisis, she told reporters in Berlin today at a joint press conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Irish two-year yields, which earlier climbed above 13 percent for the first time, fell, while German securities dropped as stocks rebounded.

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