ECB May Be Forced to Delay Exit From Emergency Aid as Debt Crisis Worsens

From Bloomber.com:

The European Central Bank may be forced to delay its exit from emergency measures again as the region’s sovereign debt crisis escalates.

Investors are dumping Spanish and Portuguese bonds on concern they will have to follow Ireland and Greece in asking for European Union bailouts, making it more difficult for the ECB to proceed with its withdrawal of liquidity support for banks. Some economists now doubt the ECB will be able to signal a move back to limited auctions of three-month loans, which they regard as the next likely step in the bank’s exit, when policy makers meet next week in Frankfurt......read on