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Deutsche Bank shares slide 13% after sudden spike in the cost of insuring against its default - CNBC
Mar 24, 2023 1 min, 6 secs
Deutsche Bank's additional tier-one (AT1) bonds — an asset class that hit the headlines this week after the controversial write-down of Credit Suisse's AT1s as part of its rescue deal — also sold off sharply.

Deutsche led broad declines for major European banking stocks on Friday, with German rival Commerzbank shedding 9%, while Credit Suisse, Societe Generale and UBS each fell by more than 7%.

Financial regulators and governments have taken action in recent weeks to contain the risk of contagion from the problems exposed at individual lenders, and Moody's said in a note Wednesday that they should "broadly succeed" in doing so.

"However, in an uncertain economic environment and with investor confidence remaining fragile, there is a risk that policymakers will be unable to curtail the current turmoil without longer-lasting and potentially severe repercussions within and beyond the banking sector," the ratings agency's credit strategy team said.

"Even before bank stress became evident, we had expected global credit conditions to continue to weaken in 2023 as a result of significantly higher interest rates and lower growth, including recessions in some countries."

The emergency rescue of Credit Suisse by UBS, in the wake of the collapse of U.S.-based Silicon Valley Bank, triggered contagion concern among investors, which was deepened by further monetary policy tightening from the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday.

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