France's brewing political crisis is spilling into financial markets with French borrowing costs hitting the same level as debt-ridden Greece's for the first time.

Borrowing costs for France hit a 12-year high relative to Germany, and were equal to those of Greece for the first time ever

France’s benchmark bond yield matched Greece’s for the first time on record, putting the bloc’s second-largest economy on an equal footing with a country once at the heart of the European sovereign debt crisis.