By David Barwick – BUDAPEST (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on Monday said the euro’s international attractiveness had recently increased, citing international debt issuance and foreign demand for Eurozone assets.
18 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Monday that the outlook was currently between the baseline and adverse scenarios, adding that the direction of interest rates was “relatively clear” unless the economy suffered a deeper shock.
18 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania on Monday allotted €35 million of a euro-denominated fixed-rate bond maturing March 10, 2036.
18 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Spanish Treasury on Monday announced an indicative issuance target of €5.5 billion to €6.5 billion for its bond auction scheduled for May 21, 2026.
18 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – UK gilt market participants expressed broad support on Monday for a new 2043 index-linked gilt, while views on a planned September conventional syndication remained preliminary and included possible new 10-year or 20-year gilt issuance.
18 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Boris Vujčić said on Sunday that current conditions in Croatia lie between the baseline and adverse scenarios outlined by the Croatian National Bank, adding that the severe scenario would materialize if the shock persists for several months.
17 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said in an interview that appeared Saturday on Greek website Liberal.gr that a significant but temporary inflation overshoot would call for a measured tightening of monetary policy in the near term, while warning that the ECB could not react mechanically to higher energy prices.
16 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – Econostream’s ECB Tone Meter fluctuated within slightly hawkish territory this week for the Governing Council, ultimately remaining broadly unchanged and ending just a touch more hawkish than last week, while the Executive Board edged more clearly lower but also stayed slightly hawkish.
15 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Agence France Trésor (AFT) on Friday announced a series of auctions scheduled for May 18 and May 21, 2026, covering fixed-rate discount Treasury bills (BTFs), medium-term government bonds (OATs) and inflation-linked OATs.
15 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Italy’s public debt rose by €19.5 billion in March from the previous month to €3.159 trillion, Bank of Italy data showed on Friday.
15 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) allotted a combined €1.5 billion in supplementary placements of multi-year Treasury bonds (BTPs) on Thursday, according to results published by the Bank of Italy.
14 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Thursday that if inflation expectations deteriorate the ECB would be “forced” to hike interest rates.
14 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said Thursday that the ECB’s April decision not to raise interest rates did not mean policymakers had decided to look through the current inflation shock.
14 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane’s speech late Wednesday on energy supply shocks will come across to some as another building block in the case for a June rate hike. It is, however, more cautious than that: it takes the framework ECB President Christine Lagarde laid out in March and shows why June’s policy decision remains an open question.
14 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) said on Tuesday it will auction £1.25 billion of 0⅛% Index-linked Treasury Gilt 2031 on May 19.
14 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Wednesday said Europe’s leaders had to act on former ECB President Mario Draghi’s diagnosis of the bloc’s weaknesses, warning that Europe’s unfinished institutional architecture was being tested by a harsher global environment.
13 May 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Wednesday said an energy-driven inflation overshoot that proved material and persistent could require a monetary policy response, while saying current evidence still showed limited broader effects from the Middle East shock.
13 May 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German state-owned investment and development bank KfW on Wednesday raised $4 billion through a new five-year benchmark bond maturing July 22, 2031.
13 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) allotted an additional €1 billion of Treasury bills (BOTs) on Wednesday through supplementary auctions reserved for specialist dealers, according to results published by the Bank of Italy.
13 May 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Belgian Debt Agency (BDA) said on Wednesday that it had raised €8 billion on Tuesday through the syndication of a new five-year OLO maturing August 22, 2031.
13 May 2026 Debt Issuance News