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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.
