After having been close to the symbolic rate of 1%, as last year at the same period, the French 10 years bond has significantly fallen back to stay around 0.70% since the beginning of April. The issuance launched April 5th with maturities running from 10 to 30 years has collected near 8 billion euro and that number will be increased to 8.6 billion including NCTs after auctions. Thanks to the rate fall, it will contribute to a new reduction of the cost of the French public debt because it will participate to the reimbursement of a 27 billion ...