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
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – A mere eleven days ago, a well-known news agency saw a June hike by the European Central Bank as becoming less likely. The opposite is true, and the only interesting case anymore with respect to June 11 is one in which the Iran conflict ends soon, the resolution looks durable and forward energy prices fall far enough, fast enough, to influence the new macroeconomic projections.
25 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Conflicting Spanish media reports over whether Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government is prepared to back former European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos for the ECB presidency have turned the succession issue into an open domestic debate while highlighting what we previously noted: clear evidence of official Spanish support remains scarce.
25 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Cyprus’ Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) on Monday sold €50 million of 13-week Treasury bills maturing on August 28, 2026.
25 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Monday announced plans to auction up to €10.5 billion of medium- and long-term securities on May 28.
25 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher said on Sunday that the ECB would have to focus its June discussion on policy action if the economic situation failed to improve.
24 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Sunday the ECB’s June macroeconomic forecasts would likely show a different inflation outlook than the March exercise.
24 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said on Saturday that it would “be problematic” for the ECB not to raise rates if the current situation in the Middle East persists.
23 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Croatian National Bank Governor Boris Vujčić said Friday that his new role as European Central Bank vice president would involve substantial work on financial stability across the Eurozone.
22 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Müller on Friday suggested that there were strong arguments in favor of an interest rate hike in June.
22 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter moved in opposite directions across its two indices this week, with the Governing Council becoming slightly more hawkish while the Executive Board pared back some of its hawkishness.
22 May 2026 Central Bank News