By Marta Vilar – SAN LORENZO DE EL ESCORIAL, Spain (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Wednesday that if the recent decline in oil prices were to persist, the factors that had concerned policymakers would gradually ease, while noting that the outlook could change quickly.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Wednesday said the new flare-up in the conflict with Iran had made the ECB’s July monetary policy decision unclear.
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By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Luxembourg-based real estate company Aroundtown SA on Tuesday priced an €850 million senior unsecured 3.625% bond due July 14, 2031.
7 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) allotted on Tuesday £4 billion of a 4⅛% Treasury Gilt 2033.
7 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany’s Finance Agency (Finanzagentur) on Tuesday allotted a total of €1.317 billion of green government securities at a reopening.
7 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Austria’s debt management agency, OeBFA, on Tuesday allotted a total of €1.725 billion of government bonds (RAGBs).
7 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – ROME (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Tuesday that negotiations between the United States and Iran could result in lower energy prices than assumed in the ECB’s June staff projections but warned that the economic outlook remained “fragile.”
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By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Tuesday priced a $6 billion triple-tranche syndicated U.S. dollar bond issue under the Italian Republic’s Program for the Issuance of Debt Instruments.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane said Monday that artificial intelligence could affect inflation, investment, the natural rate of interest and monetary policy transmission in multiple ways, but that the net impact remained uncertain.
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By Marta Vilar – ROME (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch said on Monday that if recent declines in oil and gas prices persist and second-round effects remain contained, the ECB should be able to return inflation to target without needing significant additional monetary tightening.
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By David Barwick – ROME (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Monday argued that monetary policy could not look through the current shock, since – despite the renewed decline of oil prices – it was already leading to indirect effects and could still become self-perpetuating.
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By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The German federal state of Berlin (Land Berlin) on Monday priced a €500 million tap of its 3% April 22, 2033 senior unsecured state treasury note (Landesschatzanweisung).
6 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – France’s Agence France Trésor (AFT) allotted €7.485 billion of fixed-rate discount Treasury bills (BTFs) at an auction on Monday.
6 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Monday mandated BofA Securities Europe SA, Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG, Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE and Morgan Stanley Europe SE to act as lead managers for a new triple-tranche syndicated issuance in U.S. dollars.
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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 25 June 2026 with Mercedes Abascal, Deputy Director General of Public Debt Management at the Spanish Treasury.
6 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Spain does not currently need to carry out a fourth syndicated bond sale in 2026, given the progress made in its funding program, though it remains ready to do so should market conditions prove attractive, according to Mercedes Abascal, Deputy Director General of Public Debt Management at the Spanish Treasury.
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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Friday said that the ECB must be vigilant, open and keep all options on the table given the unpredictability of the Middle East conflict and energy shock.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch has occupied an unusually prominent place in the news recently, and not just for his views on monetary policy.
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By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter declined further this week in both its Governing Council and Executive Board measures, with the latter remaining more hawkish than the former, as policymakers increasingly signaled that the case for another interest rate hike is receding and a July move appears increasingly unlikely.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – If European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s latest monetary policy comments were still largely about defending the June rate hike, newly installed Banque de France Governor Emmanuel Moulin has already moved on to what is evidently the more important task for anyone at the head of the French central bank: making absolutely sure that no one mistakes June for the start of a new tightening cycle.
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