On Tuesday, the bid-ask spread on Spain's 10-year note hit roughly 0.12 percentage point.
In 1898, the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution declaring war on Spain over Cuba.
The yield on Spain's bonds started to climb, tracked closely by the return on Italian debt.
Lenders are also willing to look farther afield, with some focusing more on Spain and Italy.
Every government budget has been cut, including the amount spent on Spain's public health system.
For now, market concern is more concentrated on Spain, which in some ways appears the more tractable problem.
Longer term, though, you have to wonder whether we will continue to be quite so focussed on Spain.
Overseas, market participants had their eyes on Spain, with the administration of Mariano Rajoy presenting their 2013 budget.
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Malaga airport serves major beach resorts on Spain's southern coast and is one of the busiest in the country.
To ease the fallout on Spain and others, the ECB could issue more three-year loans to banks, analysts say.
The third was held in the province of Cadiz on Spain's southern coast.
This month the Madrid stockmarket has tumbled and the risk premium on Spain's bonds has risen (see article).
Uncertainty in Greece would in turn intensify the pressure on Spain and Italy, amid doubts about the whole eurozone enterprise.
Having shone mostly on Spain over the past few months, the spotlight of the markets is now shifting to Italy.
Their citizens have the same rights as those on Spain's mainland, and show no sign of wishing to become Moroccan.
Mr. Vaquier said AXA's investment bans on Spain and Italy were lifted this year, although Portugal and Greece remain off limits.
Mr Clegg has been on holiday on Spain since the story surfaced, but is likely to give his response on Sunday.
Nonetheless, some fund managers and strategists say the odds are still on Spain eventually being forced into a eurozone rescue programme.
In the short term, pressure on Spain and Italy will be reduced.
Ahead of the gathering, the yield on Spain's 10-year bonds surpassed the 7% level that forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to accept bailouts.
El Ejido is the centre for fruit and vegetable production on Spain's southern coast - an industry that relies heavily on cheap immigrant labour.
Meanwhile Beckham's former team-mate Rio Ferdinand hopes the midfielder would consider a return to Manchester United if he did decide to turn his back on Spain.
Italy's 10-year government bond yield soared 0.52 percentage point to 4.88%, while the corresponding yield on Spain's bond also jumped, rising 0.24 percentage point to 5.34%.
Win Thin, global head of emerging markets for BBH, cited continued skepticism about the eurozone and its debt issues, with the immediate focus on Spain and Greece.
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Goldman Sachs' Jernej Omahen has "Buy" ratings on Spain's BBVA, Britain's HSBC, Italy's Unicredit and France's BNP, with predicted upsides of 45% or more for all four banks.
By the end of last week, the yield on Spain's 10-year bond hovered around 7%, the financial equivalent of being admitted to intensive care with a raging fever.
Officials on Spain's Canary Islands said they had seized one metric ton of hamburger patties with varying levels of horse meat ranging from 5 percent to 40 percent per patty.
Now he is closing in on Spain's most prolific goalscorers in the national team's history - his captain Fernando Hierro (on 27 goals) and Emilio 'The Vulture' Butragueno on 26.
This debate has crystallized around the defensive midfielder Nigel de Jong, whose chest-high tackle on Spain's Xabi Alonso in South Africa was the iconic image of the country's World Cup final defeat.
The tiny British colony on Spain's southern tip has long been coveted by the Spaniards, and Britain and Spain have been tetchily negotiating a change of status the would provide for dual sovereignty.
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