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'Everyone is ready for summer to be over' as SSA wave builds for Monday
Analysts discuss the scope of tightening in Bund swap spreads and the impact on SSA spreads
OATs and OLOs could weaken further versus Bunds while southern European countries and EU continue to paint a positive picture
Uncertainty looms large as presidential race far from clear and budget negotiations potentially ‘highly challenging’
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The UK will increase its planned sales of Gilts as a result of Tuesday’s revisions to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and fiscal outlook. As a result there will be two new auctions in December 2011 and January 2012.
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The UK will not issue CPI-linked Gilts in 2012-13, it has announced. The decision comes after a consultation period which ran between June and September but the UK government has not ruled out such issuance in the future.
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In a week when Gilts traded flat to, and even briefly through, Bunds and markets endured one of the worst weeks yet in the sovereign crisis, the United Kingdom continued its run of sell-out deals. Its £3.5bn 2029 linker attracted record-breaking bids of £10bn in just one hour.
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A $2.25bn two year tap from the World Bank provided the only good news in the sovereign, supranational and agency dollar market this week as one, if not two, issuers put dollar plans on hold in the face of ballooning spreads and an illiquid secondary market.
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Proposals for common eurozone bond issuance put forward this week by the European Commission have thrown into stark relief the rift that exists between banks and sovereigns as to how the plans should be implemented. Some market participants remain unconvinced that the proposals offer any solution at all.