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Description: Long-term interest rate statistics (monthly averages of secondary market yields - percentages per annum - of government bonds with maturities close to ten years) for all Eurozone countries, except the three Baltic states. Latvia and Lithuania were not included because of only joining the eurozone after the debt crisis had erupted, while the exclusion of Estonia is due to its absence of issued government long-term debt (ECB notes: "As Estonia has a very limited government debt, there are currently no suitable long-term government bonds available on the financial market"). In regards of Cyprus, ECB chose only to publish primary market yield data for its long term government debt (with the effective yield being fixed to the one applying on the issuing date of the government bond with the longest 10 year maturity), but as the accuracy of these data can be questioned (i.e. private creditors holding maturing Cypriot bonds, were forced to exchange them with the latest issued 2023 bond at a fixed 6.0% rate), the graph also feature a dotted line for Cyprus of its secondary market (freely stock exchange traded) long-term yield extracted from its bond with maturity on 3 February 2020 (see note below). Source: http://www.ecb.int/stats/money/long/html/index.en.html
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