Spanish PM pushes ECB bond buying program

Berlin : Germany | Sep 02, 2012 at 5:01 AM PDT

Source: Ledger-Enquirer

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Spain's prime minister is urging the European Central Bank to go ahead with a bond-buying program aimed at lowering the borrowing costs of debt-ridden governments like his own, saying in comments published Sunday that eurozone state financing rates need to be similar for the currency union to function.... FULL ARTICLE AT Ledger-Enquirer

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