By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić said on Tuesday that successful participation in a monetary union required durable convergence and policy credibility over time, noting that monetary integration could not be achieved through a single policy decision or a temporary alignment of economic indicators.
2 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Spanish Treasury on Tuesday allotted €6.482 billion of six- and 12-month Treasury Bills (Letras del Tesoro) in an auction.
2 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gediminas Šimkus said on Tuesday that he saw no reason for the ECB to surprise financial markets by holding interest rates steady next week.
2 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn's speech on Tuesday mounted the clearest argument yet for characterizing a likely June rate hike as an “insurance hike,” even as it illustrated the peril of the phrase.
2 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany's Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Tuesday allotted €3.857 billion in a reopening of its June 2028 federal treasury note (Schatz).
2 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said Tuesday that a rate increase next week would amount to insurance against inflation risks rather than a response to already entrenched price pressures.
2 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) on Tuesday allotted £3.25 billion of the 4⅝% Green government bond (Gilt) 2037.
2 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday that the Banque de France would lower its growth forecasts, although the French economy would still be expected to expand in most of its scenarios.
1 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania on Monday allotted €50 million of a bond maturing June 1, 2032.
1 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany's Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Monday allotted €3.929 billion of treasury discount paper in a multi-ISIN tender reopening two Treasury discount paper (Bubill) lines maturing in September 2026 and March 2027.
1 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori - ROME (Econostream) - Agence France Trésor (AFT) on Monday allotted €7.996 billion of short-term bills at its Treasury bill (BTF) auction.
1 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Monday reiterated that the ECB could “no longer look through” the shock from the conflict in the Middle East.
1 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Less than a month after we pointed out that European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos’ praise for ex-Banco de España Governor Pablo Hernández de Cos kept getting fainter, the next step has arrived: the former no longer mentions the latter at all.
1 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Eurozone consumers’ near-term inflation expectations remained elevated in April, while their assessment of recent inflation rose significantly, the European Central Bank said Monday.
1 June 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Monday warned that the rapid growth of stablecoins could pose risks to financial stability, affect the transmission of monetary policy and further entrench the global dominance of the U.S. dollar, arguing that central banks must respond through regulation and continued innovation in public money.
1 June 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s state-sector budget deficit amounted to €14.7 billion in May, compared with a deficit of €11.681 billion in the same month of 2025, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) said on Monday.
1 June 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said in an interview published Sunday that a global supply shock would first affect inflation and then growth, and warned against assuming that a possible June rate hike would necessarily be followed by another move.
31 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Álvaro Santos Pereira said over the weekend that monetary policy should act quickly if inflationary pressures risk becoming persistent, signaling support for a rate hike at the ECB’s June 11 meeting.
31 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter moved more hawkish in both indices this week, with the Governing Council measure moving from slightly hawkish territory to close to outright hawkish territory, while the gap with the Executive Board narrowed substantially.
29 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Dimitar Radev said on Friday that the risks of delaying monetary policy action could outweigh those of moving earlier.
29 May 2026 Central Bank News