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Spreads expected to remain ‘well anchored’ in coming weeks despite this week’s blip
◆ Issuer’s first public dollar deal since late 2021 ◆ New five, 10 and 30 year offered simultaneously ◆ Interest from European sovereigns grows for dollars
Bloc to price new five year and 20 year tap as Rome set to end dollar hiatus
A Kilt will pay a spread over Gilts it cannot justify on credit, which makes it a political gesture rather than a funding tool
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The minutes of the European Central Bank’s meeting of September 6-7 reaffirmed the central bank’s intentions to gradually scale back its quantitative easing programme in 2017, but offered little in the way of new information. -
The People’s Bank of China has used its extensive holdings of European government bonds to act as an “escape valve” at times when the European repo market has become squeezed — such as year-end and quarter-end periods, when certain French and German bonds were unobtainable at almost any price.
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Ireland has sold its first negative yielding bond, raising €4bn with a five year. The deal pulled in €10.1bn of orders, despite some trepidation over the developing situation between Catalonia and Spain.
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The European Commission is moving ahead with plans to develop sovereign bond-backed securities — which some market watchers have dubbed a “common eurozone safe asset”. The efforts come despite the idea being met with disdain from sovereign debt management offices (DMOs) earlier this year.
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Hungary had taken books of €5.75bn for its new euro benchmark on Wednesday, after announcing that investors had agreed to tender $3.3bn of its outstanding dollar notes.
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The buy-side is slowly removing European duration from portfolios in anticipation of the European Central Bank cutting its asset purchase programme, according to an investment director. Meanwhile, new cash flowing into the eurozone periphery is likely to go to Italy over Spain while uncertainty lingers over Catalonia’s future.
