A round-up of the key stories across the specialist financial media, including news that Spain's spiralling debt is deepening its problems.
Spain sinks deeper into periphery on debt rise
Spain’s debt is set to double from where it stood when Europe’s debt crisis began eating away at any distinction from the rest of the region’s periphery.
The outlook for the German economy has improved, but a strong cyclical bounce isn't to be expected until the second quarter, according to the Bundesbank.
Italy’s stock exchange plans to charge traders if they send too many orders into its system, in an effort to curb what regulators deem an excessive numbers of orders.
