France's borrowing costs are rising as Europe's debt crisis makes investors wary of lending to any nation other than Germany. "There is only one sovereign in Europe, and that is Germany," said Stuart Thomson, who helps oversee about $120 billion as a portfolio manager at Ignis Asset Management in Glasgow. "Everything else is a credit and trades like a credit, even France."
France's borrowing costs are rising as Europe's debt crisis makes investors wary of lending to any nation other than Germany.
"There is only one sovereign in Europe, and that is Germany," said Stuart Thomson, who helps oversee about $120 billion as a portfolio manager at Ignis Asset Management in Glasgow. "Everything else is a credit and trades like a credit, even France."