This one has made the rounds so often we should probably just take it as fact.

Dow Jones has a story that sats the EZ governments are negotiating an increase in the lending capacity of the EFSF and ESM. They hope to have a deal at the summit later in the week. Loans to the IMF would be part of the puzzle.

There is talk the EZ will raise the EUR 500 bln lending cap on the bailout funds.