French fin min out with a few comments 19 Feb

An understanding on how to drag the sorry bailout saga even longer ?

  • France wants ESM strengthening
  • De Guindos has all skills to be a good ECP VP

Also from Europgroup meeting Germany's acting fin min Altmaier also backing De Guindos, perhaps in the hope/understanding that a German gets the top job next year when Draghi steps down.

Meanwhile EURUSD down to 1.2375 as USD demand returns