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Exclusive: Slovenia DMO Head: Pre-Funded About a Third of 2023 Funding Needs

Exclusive: Slovenia DMO Head: Pre-Funded About a Third of 2023 Funding Needs

- Slovenia DMO head: 2023 syndications better done sooner rather than later
- Slovenia DMO head: ‘Contemplating a return to the US dollar market’ this year
- Slovenia DMO head: Increase in Slovenian budget deficit shouldn’t make life difficult
- Slovenia DMO head: Unlikely to revisit ultra-long end of yield curve for now
- Slovenia DMO head: Braced for ECB active bond sales

12 January 2023 Debt Issuance News
ECB’s Villeroy: Would Be Good to Reach Terminal Rate by Summer

ECB’s Villeroy: Would Be Good to Reach Terminal Rate by Summer

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau on Thursday said the terminal rate would ideally be reached by summer and the ECB would remain there as long as necessary.

5 January 2023 Central Bank News
ECB’s Nagel: ‘We Need to Take Further Action’

ECB’s Nagel: ‘We Need to Take Further Action’

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Monday said that monetary authorities’ job was not yet finished and that further rate hikes were required.

2 January 2023 Central Bank News
ECB’s Schnabel: Terminal Interest Rate Lies in Restrictive Territory

ECB’s Schnabel: Terminal Interest Rate Lies in Restrictive Territory

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will have to take official borrowing costs into restrictive territory in order to get inflation back to a level consistent with price stability, according to ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel on Saturday.

24 December 2022 Central Bank News
ECB’s Centeno: I Support All the ECB’s Rate Hikes So Far

ECB’s Centeno: I Support All the ECB’s Rate Hikes So Far

By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno on Thursday said that he agreed with every ECB rate hike to date in the current hiking cycle and that where the hikes were headed would become clearer once inflation started to subside.

22 December 2022 Central Bank News
Exclusive: ECB Insider: QT Decision ‘Easier’, Less Controversial than Rate Hike

Exclusive: ECB Insider: QT Decision ‘Easier’, Less Controversial than Rate Hike

- ECB insider: No insistence on QT sequence with respect to TLTRO repayments or rate hikes
- ECB insider: Average €15 billion a month of QT ‘a very good start’
- ECB insider: ‘Most likely’ that
all maturing bonds will be treated equally
- ECB insider: In terms of QT, ‘
we have not done anything that markets were not expecting’

20 December 2022 Central Bank News
National Bank of Belgium Sees Belgian Economy Narrowly Avoiding Technical Recession

National Bank of Belgium Sees Belgian Economy Narrowly Avoiding Technical Recession

By David Barwick – BRUSSELS (Econostream) – The National Bank of Belgium on Monday said that the euro area economy would be in a mild recession at the end of this year and early next year, but that Belgian growth would hold up relatively well and only briefly turn slightly negative, thus avoiding a technical recession.

19 December 2022 Central Bank News