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As Greek Restructuring Looms, Bondholders Think Twice About Other Sovereign Debt

New York Times - Feb 24, 2012

As Greece starts sending out a formal debt restructuring offer to its private-sector bondholders in the coming days, the hard-line approach Athens has taken to require steep losses for creditors has prompted fears that other weak countries in Europe may do the same.

By passing a law this week that gives the government the right to impose a loss of as much as 75 percent on all investors who own bonds governed by Greek law — which covers 92 percent of bonds outstanding — Greece has, with one stroke, sharply increased its chances of erasing €107 billion, or $144 billion, from its total debt burden of €373 billion.

The debt restructuring, if successful, would be the largest in recent history, and the losses to be suffered by banks, hedge funds and other private investors among the most painful ever. In this regard Greece trails only Iraq, which imposed an 89 percent loss on its bondholders in 2006, and Argentina, with a 76.8 percent loss in 2005.

Greece has also raised the odds that, as the pain of austerity increases in countries like Portugal and Ireland — to say nothing of Spain and Italy further down the road — the temptation for other countries to turn a similar legal trick will grow stronger.

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- Posted: 2012-02-24 15:03:05


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