By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 12 December 2024 with Saskia Van Dun, Agent of the Dutch State Treasury Agency:
19 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – The Netherlands will deliver a more flexible funding program for 2025 but should stick to the currently expected €40 billion capital market issuance, according to Dutch State Treasury Agent Saskia van Dun.
19 December 2024
By Marta Vilar – ATHENS (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 8 November 2024 with Dimitris Tsakonas, Director General of the Greek Public Debt Management Agency:
20 November 2024
By Marta Vilar – ATHENS (Econostream) – An upgrade of Greece’s credit rating to investment grade by rating agency Moody’s could lead to €3-5 billion in additional demand for Greek debt, said Dimitris Tsakonas, Director General of the Public Debt Management Agency of the country.
20 November 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – In the following we share views gleaned from numerous recent exchanges with European Central Bank Governing Council members regarding the current monetary policy outlook. We depart from our usual format and make key points in list form for the sake of conciseness:
14 November 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank should not deliberately set out to undershoot or overshoot its 2% inflation target, according to ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks.
13 November 2024
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank is unlikely to cut interest rates by 50bp in December, according to Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch.
11 November 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 1 November 2024 with Anu Sammallahti, director of finance and acting Head of Division at Finland’s State Treasury:
5 November 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Finland expects its debt issuance programme to amount to ‘around €43 billion’ in 2025, according to Anu Sammallahti, director of finance and acting Head of Division at Finland’s State Treasury.
5 November 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 23 October with Mário Centeno, Governor of the Banco de Portugal and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
29 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – WASHINGTON (Econostream) – The European Central Bank must remain open on the size of a potential December cut, which will be driven by the imperative of not undershooting the ECB's inflation target, Governing Council member Mário Centeno said last Wednesday.
29 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – Madrid (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 08 October 2024 with Tammo Diemer, member of the Executive Board of Germany’s Finance Agency:
23 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Germany is highly unlikely to re-enter the inflation-linked bond market after having exited in 2024, according to Tammo Diemer, member of the Executive Board of Germany’s Finance Agency.
23 October 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – RIGA (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 02 October with and reviewed on 06 October by Mārtiņš Kazāks, Governor of Latvijas Banka and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
7 October 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – RIGA (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will probably continue to take similarly-sized rate steps as long as the economic outlook does not worsen even further, ECB Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Wednesday.
7 October 2024
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on September 26 with Carla Díaz Álvarez de Toledo, director general of the Spanish Treasury.
2 October 2024
- Díaz: Latest syndication had highest demand for inflation-linked bond in euro area
- Díaz: Comfortable with portfolio average life
- Díaz: Won’t adjust issuance programme to short-term changes in interest rates
- Díaz: We try to be very predictable; issuance strategy not opportunistic,
- Díaz: Bond buybacks not part of our regular toolkit
By Marta Vilar – VIENNA (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on September 19 with Markus Stix, Managing Director in charge of markets at the Austrian Treasury.
26 September 2024
By Marta Vilar – VIENNA (Econostream) – Demand for ultra-long bonds will recover and Austria will then assess the possibility of tapping the market for this ‘opportunistic’ part of the curve, according to Markus Stix, Managing Director in charge of markets at the Austrian Treasury.
26 September 2024
By David Barwick and Marta Vilar – VILNIUS (Econostream) - Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 2 September with Gediminas Šimkus, Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank:
3 September 2024