By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Dutch State Treasury Agency (DSTA) on Tuesday raised €2.985 billion from the reopening of its 2.75% Dutch State Loan (DSL) due July 15, 2036.
28 July 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Austria's debt management agency, OeBFA, on Tuesday allotted a total of €2 billion of Austrian Treasury bills (ATBs) across two maturities.
28 July 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Tuesday sold a total of €5.5 billion across one short-term Treasury bond (BTP Short Term), one Treasury bond (BTP) and one Treasury bond linked to euro-area inflation (BTPei), according to results released by the Bank of Italy.
28 July 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 27 July 2026 with Kaspars Āboliņš, director of the Latvian State Treasury.
28 July 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Latvia's Treasury is monitoring financial markets for a possible syndicated benchmark bond later this year, although regular auctions remain its baseline funding strategy for the remainder of 2026, according to Kaspars Āboliņš, director of the Latvian State Treasury.
28 July 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír’s declaration Monday in a blog post that he expects to back another rate hike in September deserves attention, but his record suggests that his misses are more revealing than his hits.
28 July 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – France’s Agence France Trésor (AFT) on Monday allotted €7.795 billion across four fixed-rate discount Treasury bills (BTFs).
27 July 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Belgian Debt Agency (BDA) on Monday sold €2.807 billion of three linear bonds (OLOs).
27 July 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kažimír said Monday that the latest evidence would have to be compelling to keep him from supporting a further interest rate increase at the ECB’s next monetary policy meeting.
27 July 2026 | Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – U.S. telecommunications company AT&T on Monday priced a five-tranche SEC-registered senior unsecured notes offering comprising €4.1 billion and £550 million.
27 July 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Greek infrastructure group Aktor SA Holding Company Technical and Energy Projects on Monday priced €300 million of senior unsecured notes.
27 July 2026 | Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ante Žigman on Saturday said the inflationary consequences of the energy shock would become clear only over the coming months and gave no signal on whether the next interest rate decision should produce another increase or an unchanged stance.
25 July 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter edged slightly lower this week in its Governing Council and Executive Board measures as policymakers struck a patient tone on further tightening while continuing to point to September as the next natural opportunity for reassessment.
24 July 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said Friday that a September interest rate increase was much more likely than another hold, while stressing that the Council would have additional inflation data before deciding.
24 July 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane said Friday that the current energy shock was too large to ignore but had not reached a “red-alert” level requiring rapid action, with policymakers continuing to calibrate interest rates meeting by meeting.
24 July 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Friday that the ECB would be in a better position to determine the appropriate monetary policy stance at its September meeting, when policymakers will have a fresh set of projections and more incoming data.
24 July 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Ante Žigman said Friday that renewed hostilities between the United States and Iran would strengthen inflation pressures and weigh on euro area economic activity.
24 July 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said Friday that it was appropriate to leave interest rates unchanged while policymakers monitored the Middle East conflict and awaited new forecasts and analysis in September.
24 July 2026 | Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Emmanuel Moulin said on Friday that conditions had moved back closer to the ECB's June baseline, saying this was why policymakers had left interest rates unchanged at their July meeting.
24 July 2026 | Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Friday that data arriving over the coming weeks would determine whether the ECB raises interest rates again in September or holds them steady.
24 July 2026 | Central Bank News