Madrid - AFP
Spain paid sharply higher borrowing rates to raise 4.49 billion euros ($6.2 billion) in a bond sale on Wednesday in the midst of market turmoil over a feared Greek default. The Treasury auctioned 1.562 billion euros of two-year bonds and 2.928 billion euros of five-year bonds, meeting its money-raising target but only at much higher yields, a Bank of Spain report showed.