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Italian government bonds sold off sharply this week as worries grew over the sovereign’s debt sustainability after last week’s Eurogroup meeting left any form of debt mutualisation a highly unlikely prospect in the near term. The result is that Italy will have to rely more on support from the European Central Bank as it prepares to bolt on a much bigger borrowing programme in response to the coronavirus pandemic. -
EU ministers finally managed to find agreement before the Easter weekend on a rescue package to help fund the bloc's response to the Covid-19 pandemic. But investors and analysts were far from convinced that critical debates about countries' ability to deal with the economic impact of the crisis and about the wider future of the EU have been settled.
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BMO Capital Markets lead managed its first ever sterling public sector bond issue this week, with an under the radar tap for Rentenbank.
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The Eurogroup has, once again, manifestly failed to come to a unanimous position on coronabonds. The bloc does appear to be incrementally adding components to its joint fiscal response, however, with some form of joint recovery fund appearing likely — even if the source of its funding remains a mystery. Jean Comte, Jasper Cox and Lewis McLellan report.
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Banks sponsoring asset-backed commercial paper conduits activated the liquidity lines backing up these vehicles in the days before Federal Reserve intervention started to stabilise commercial paper markets, as rates spiked and investors focused on only the shortest maturities.
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Finance ministers have agreed on the use of the European Stability Mechanism, the European Investment Bank and a new unemployment fund as a fiscal response to the coronavirus crisis, but they remain split on language about a possible common recovery fund. They are set to reconvene — virtually — on Thursday afternoon.
