State Bank of India’s (SBI) decision to widen its investor base and tap into alternative sources of liquidity showed brave, if not perverse, timing. The capital markets in Europe reacted negatively to the Ireland debt bailout, with stock prices falling and bond yields of riskier countries and companies rising. The cost of insuring both sovereign and corporate debt jumped at the beginning of the week.
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