By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel signaled that the ECB need not rush into another rate hike after June’s move, saying the decision had put policy at an appropriate level and that caution was warranted amid high uncertainty.
15 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 14 July 2026 with Esther Finnbogadóttir, head of funding and debt management of the Icelandic Ministry of Finance.
14 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - Iceland is more likely to issue a conventional foreign currency bond than a green bond in 2027, as it continues to prioritize establishing a regular presence in international capital markets with benchmark issuance, according to Esther Finnbogadóttir, head of funding and debt management at the Icelandic Ministry of Finance.
14 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is fond of assuring markets that they understand the ECB’s reaction function. After the ECB’s June meeting , for example, she said the Governing Council’s job was to “follow carefully the reaction function that you are all familiar with” and to be “as transparent about [it] as possible so that we are predictable.”
14 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) on Tuesday priced a £4.75 billion reopening of its 1¾% Index-linked Treasury Gilt due September 22, 2038.
14 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Dutch State Treasury Agency (DSTA) on Tuesday raised €3.270 billion from the reopening of its 2.50% Dutch State Loan (DSL) due January 15, 2031.
14 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany’s Federal Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Tuesday allotted €4.222 billion of a new 2.70% Federal Treasury note (Schatz), Bundesbank data showed.
14 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Tuesday that renewed hostilities in the Middle East had created fresh uncertainty over inflation and economic growth after energy prices had briefly de-escalated.
14 July 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Monday identified integration, innovation and sovereignty as key pillars for reviving growth and resilience in Europe, according to slides prepared for a speech in Münster.
13 July 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said Monday the final legal text on the digital euro could be completed by the end of 2026, allowing the ECB to decide on possible issuance.
13 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – France’s Agence France Trésor (AFT) on Monday allotted €7.394 billion of fixed-rate discount Treasury bills (BTFs).
13 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The European Commission, on behalf of the European Union, on Monday allotted €6.455 billion across three EU-Bonds.
13 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said Irish fiscal policy should avoid adding to inflation pressures as euro area monetary policy had tightened and Ireland faced externally driven price pressures.
13 July 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Monday said that risks to European Union financial stability remained elevated despite the resilience shown by the EU economy and financial system.
13 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany’s Federal Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Monday allotted €4.926 billion of two Treasury discount papers (Bubills), Bundesbank data showed.
13 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - Econostream's ECB Tone Meter declined markedly this week in both its Governing Council and Executive Board measures, with the latter remaining slightly more hawkish than the former, as policymakers sounded less likely early in the week to hike again and were then largely silent following the renewed outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East.
10 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Friday allotted an additional €800 million of 12-month Treasury bills (BOTs) in a supplementary placement, according to data published by the Bank of Italy.
10 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The renewed flare-up of violence in the Middle East has made it harder for the European Central Bank to approach the Governing Council’s July 23 monetary policy meeting as a wait-and-see exercise, but it has yet to make a July rate hike the obvious baseline.
10 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Friday allotted €7.5 billion of three Treasury bonds (BTPs), according to data published by the Bank of Italy.
10 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Friday said that renewed hostilities between the U.S. and Iran showed the uncertainty surrounding energy prices and inflation forecasts, and therefore the challenges facing monetary policy.
10 July 2026 Central Bank News