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Exclusive: Estonian DMO Head: Increased Defence Spending Could Lead to Higher Issuance, Long-Term Bond Comeback

Exclusive: Estonian DMO Head: Increased Defence Spending Could Lead to Higher Issuance, Long-Term Bond Comeback

- Janno Luurmees, Head of Estonia’s State Treasury Department: ‘We anticipate another Treasury bill auction in 2H25’
- Luurmees: Increasing defence spending may lead to higher issuance in 2H25
- Luurmees: Higher defence spending ‘could bring long-term issuance back to consideration’
- Luurmees: Might pre-finance part of 2026 budget if market conditions favourable
- Luurmees: ‘We are far from any kind of debt spiral’
- Luurmees: Currently no decisions made about future retail issuances
- Luurmees: ‘We have no plans to issue green bonds at this stage’

19 May 2025
ECB Insight: Schnabel, in Effect, Endorses June Rate Cut

ECB Insight: Schnabel, in Effect, Endorses June Rate Cut

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Granted, European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel would object to our title above, her speech early Saturday (Frankfurt time) during a conference at Stanford University having clearly been meant as a pushback against calls to take euro area interest rates ever lower.

12 May 2025