Societe Generale SA

Treasuries? 10-year notes are trading in the narrowest range this month as traders grow weary from seemingly nonstop negotiations between Greece and its creditors.

Greek deposit outflows slowed to 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion) in March, two people familiar with the matter said, suggesting the European Central Bank will need to keep drip feeding loans as talks on an economic accord sputter.

By Alessandro Speciale

The European Central Bank?s public debate over buying government bonds is reaching a climax.

As Italy sold 10-year bonds on Tuesday at a record-low yield of less than 2 percent, rates on similar-maturity Greek debt were spiraling toward 10 percent.

Compare that with 2011, when Greece’s troubles were grouped with Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain and Italian borrowing costs exceeded 7 percent.

By Anchalee Worrachate

Euro-area government bonds were set for their longest monthly winning streak in nine years after weak data from retail sales to factory output signaled European Central Bank efforts to revive the economy are not yet finished.

Europe’s biggest fund managers are heeding policy makers’ warnings that an “excessive” search for yield is making bonds from companies in the region’s most indebted countries vulnerable to a selloff.

Public Power Corp SA, Greece’s largest electricity company, is returning to the bond market for the first time since 2000 as recovery takes hold in the nation that set off the euro region’s debt crisis.

By Abigail Moses

A recovery in the nation that set off the euro region’s debt crisis is allowing Greece’s largest electricity company to return to the bond market for the first time since 2000.