Broken stock markets pushed higher ignoring Merkel saying Nein ( again ) to eurobonds or a deposit scheme Germany would pay for , ignoring Rajoy calling a crisis meeting due to Spain's worsening debt picture ( for the moment at least these items are ignored ) - and the rise or lack of a big fall comes down to ... speculation of a relatively unknown and completely irrelevant greek pol's speculation of the true intention of SYRIZA's Tspipris ? Yes , it really has come down to that - ignore spiking italian yields and spanish ten year debt at 7 percent , rally on the comments of Drasi's Stefanos Manos !

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9331474/Angela-Merkel-rejects-miracle-solutions-as-Spain-debt-costs-soar.html

Spain's 10-year bond yield hit a euro lifetime high of 7pc - a staging post above which Greece, Ireland and Portugal were driven to seek international rescues - despite last weekend's euro zone agreement to lend Madrid up to €100bn to recapitalise ailing banks.

Moody's Investor Service slashed Spain's sovereign credit rating by three notches to Baa3, just one level above junk, late on Wednesday, adding to the sense of emergency in financial markets ahead of an election in debt-plagued Greece on Sunday. Mariano Rajoy was reportedly holding a crisis meeting this afternoon.

Merkel, addressing parliament in Berlin, rejected "miracle solutions" such as issuing joint euro bonds or creating a Europe-wide deposit guarantee scheme, backed by other leaders such as new French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti.

Such proposals were "counterproductive" and would violate the German constitution, she said.

Instead, she called for gradual steps towards the "Herculean task" of building a European political union. nL5E8HE3UG

"It is our task today to make up for what was not done (when the euro was created in 1999) and to end the vicious circle of ever new debt, of not sticking to the rules," Merkel said.

She warned against overstraining the resources of Europe's biggest economy, saying: "Germany is putting this strength and this power to use for the wellbeing of people, not just in Germany but also to help European unity and the global economy. But we also know, Germany's strength is not infinite."

Italy, rapidly coming into the firing line, saw its three-year borrowing costs spike to 5.3pc at auction today, the highest since December, despite Germany's strong expression of support for Prime Minister Mario Monti's reforms when he visited Berlin on Wednesday.

The surging Spanish and Italian bond yields reflect investors' concern that the 17-nation currency bloc has failed to arrest its 2-1/2-year-old debt crisis and faces potential turmoil after a general election that could put Greece on the exit road.

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http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1510206/0/rajoy/gabinete-crisis/deuda/

Rajoy gathers his cabinet crisis with the delicate situation of the Spanish debt

From left to right: Luis de Guindos, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, Mariano Rajoy and Cristobal Montoro.(Sergio Barrenechea / Reuters)

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• Rajoy meets Saenz de Santamaria, Luis de Guindos and Montoro.
• The Executive Committee of Economic Affairs met at 10, after that meeting the Government's continuing strong members gathered.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/greek-stock-market-soars-speculation-tsipras-bluffing

Greek Stock Market Soars On Speculation Tsipras Bluffing

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/14/2012 07:49 -0400

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Something amusing happened in today's global capital markets: while European bond markets, especially in the periphery, are sliding following the Spanish downgrade and the Italian bond auction, one market has soared: that of Greece, which is up nearly double digits (not all that meaningful when you are at 20+ year lows), and whose bankrupt and deposit-free banks are up 20%. Which in turn is pushing US futures higher despite the Spanish record yield. What has caused this spike? Nothing but more political rhetoric and jawboning. Specifically, overnight Kathimerini reported that "Stefanos Manos, the leader of the small liberal party Drasi, claims that leftist SYRIZA will not scrap Greece’s bailout if it comes to power because it is the only way it can guarantee salaries for its supporters in the civil service." Well, yes. Tspiras never said he will scrap the bailout. He merely said that he will end the memorandum in its current format. The decision then, and as always, would lie with Germany and the ECB, what to do about this latest Nash Equilibrium defection. In other words, the ultimate decision-maker was never Tsipras, and in fact even ND's Samaras has repeatedly said he would renegotiation the terms of the Greek bailout. But in this centrally-planned, robotically-traded market, confusion over cause and effect is to be widely expected.

“SYRIZA has taken over, mainly from PASOK, the patronage of the status quo created by labor groups,” he told party supporters during a rally on Wednesday night.

On Thursday, Manos repeated his position in an interview with Skai TV. «SYRIZA's customers are the civil servants, public enterprise employees and academics. [Alexis] Tsipras has to ensure that he can pay their wages. I wouldn't worry at all [about the bailout being rejected]."

Manos said that the real issue at these elections was not whether parties favour the memorandum or not. “The issue is restoring the balance between the rights and responsibilities of the privileged in the public sector and those without privileges in the productive sectors of the economy,” he said.

Drasi is cooperating with pro-business Dimiourgia Xana (Recreate Greece) and the Liberal Alliance for the June 17 elections.

So propaganda aside, what did Tsipras really say? Well, fast forward 2 hours in the same Kathimerini which reports...

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras says that if his party comes first in Sunday’s elections, it will signify the end of the EU-IMF memorandum but the leftist added that he is prepared to negotiate a new deal with Greece’s lenders.

In an interview aired on Antenna TV on Thursday morning, Tsipras said that voters, not SYRIZA would decide if the terms of Greece’s bailout should be cancelled. “The memorandum will be repudiated by the people’s vote, not us,” he said.

Tsipras said that he wants the policy of internal devaluation to stop but that he is prepared to discuss all these issues with Greece’s eurozone counterparts.

In other words, as explained over the past 2 months, the Greek politicians will likely send a bid for memorandum renegotiation in either case. What happens then is out of their hands. The bigger question is whether Germans will have the stomach for Greek bailout #3. If one judges by the comments after yesterday's Die Ziet article, and by the emergence of the #StoppESM twitter hashmark, futures have much more to be worried about than what some C-grade politician in Greece has to say.