By Marta Vilar – DUBLIN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Wednesday that that the ECB should lead markets rather than follow them, warning that it “would be a big mistake” to raise rates without the justification of evidence, simply because markets expected it.
27 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – DUBLIN (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said Wednesday that he had not yet seen clear second-round effects stemming from the Middle East conflict, though he added that did not mean such effects did not exist or could not emerge in time for the ECB’s June meeting.
27 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – LONDON (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) on Wednesday sold £4 billion of 4⅛% Treasury Gilt 2033.
27 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said Wednesday that central banks had to adapt their analytical tools and communication to a world of more frequent, complex and less predictable shocks.
27 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany’s Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Wednesday sold a combined €1.549 billion of reopened 2041 and 2056 Federal bonds (Bunds).
27 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Wednesday sold €7.5 billion of a six-month BOT maturing November 30, 2026, according to results published by the Bank of Italy.
27 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar and Laura Contemori – MADRID/ROME (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Wednesday that the economic slowdown caused by the Middle East shock could partly offset inflationary pressures, though the overall impact would still be inflationary.
27 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said Wednesday that the Middle East energy shock posed upside risks to inflation and downside risks to growth, warning that it could raise market volatility and make debt servicing more difficult.
27 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen said Tuesday that the ECB was ready to respond if the Middle East energy shock pushed inflation away from its 2% target.
26 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel may have made the strongest official case yet for a June rate hike, but Chief Economist Philip Lane has now made clear that one move would not imply another.
26 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – France’s Agence France Trésor (AFT) on Tuesday sold €8.094 billion of short-term Treasury bills (BTFs) across four maturities, in the upper end of the targeted issuance ranges announced ahead of the auction on Friday.
26 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane said Tuesday that a June interest rate increase, if decided, would not necessarily imply the start of a full tightening cycle.
26 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) sold €5 billion of government securities on Tuesday across one government bond (BTP) and two Eurozone inflation-linked BTPei, according to results published by the Bank of Italy.
26 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Austria’s debt management agency, the OeBFA, on Tuesday sold €2.5 billion of a three-month green Austrian Treasury Bill (ATB) maturing August 27, 2026.
26 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel’s Reuters interview today confirms almost point for point the argument we made here yesterday : a June rate hike has become very hard to avoid, but it is premature to infer a sequence of moves.
26 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Belgian Debt Agency (BDA) said on Tuesday that it had raised on Monday a total of €1.715 billion through an auction of two OLO lines.
26 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said Tuesday that the ECB would probably need to raise interest rates in June, arguing that the Middle East energy shock was now too large and persistent to be looked through.
26 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday that there were no signs of second-round effects yet, but the ECB would remain very watchful and act without delay if needed.
25 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania on Monday sold €60 million of a bond maturing on August 5, 2028.
25 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said on Monday that a significant but temporary overshoot of the ECB’s inflation target would warrant a cautious move toward tighter monetary policy, while warning that the Middle East conflict had intensified stagflation risks.
25 May 2026 Central Bank News