By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Spanish Treasury on Thursday allotted €6.652 billion across one Bono, two nominal Obligaciones and one inflation-linked Obligación.
2 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – MADRID (Econostream) - European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá said on Thursday that the key challenge for policymakers was determining whether the inflationary effects of the Middle East war would prove temporary or become persistent enough to threaten the ECB's price stability objective.
2 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – France’s Agence France Trésor (AFT) on Thursday issued €14 billion across four long-term OATs.
2 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta on Thursday said artificial intelligence had the potential to lift productivity and growth in Italy, but would require greater investment and a financial system capable of supporting innovation.
2 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German state-owned development bank KfW on Thursday increased its 2026 funding target to €80-85 billion from €75-80 billion, reflecting strong domestic promotional business and an expected positive trend in coming months.
2 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The Bank of Italy’s €-coin indicator, a measure of underlying Eurozone economic growth, declined to 0.39 in June from 0.45 in May, according to a joint release by the Bank of Italy and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) on Thursday.
2 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday that upside risks to inflation and downside risks to growth in the euro area had become “more broadly balanced” in recent weeks.
1 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – German bank Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG on Wednesday priced €500 million of three-year green senior preferred notes.
1 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Three German federal states on Wednesday priced a €1 billion five-year state treasury note (Landesschatzanweisung).
1 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Marta Vilar – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujčić on Wednesday indicated that preliminary June euro area inflation data were not too far from expectations and that the ECB was not foreclosing on any of its policy options ahead of the July meeting.
1 July 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks on Wednesday said the urgency of consecutive interest rate increases had decreased significantly and that the ECB did not currently need to respond forcefully to inflation.
1 July 2026 Central Bank News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel on Wednesday said July and September remained open for possible further policy action, citing uncertainty about whether the recent decline in energy prices would prove sustainable.
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By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Martin Kocher on Wednesday said the ECB’s coming meetings would likely be about whether to leave monetary policy unchanged or raise interest rates further.
1 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The European Commission, on behalf of the European Union, on Wednesday allotted €4.061 billion of EU-Bills across three lines.
1 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – Germany’s debt management agency, Finanzagentur, on Wednesday allotted €2.673 billion to bidders in a reopening of the 2.50% federal bond (Bund) due November 15, 2032.
1 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By Laura Contemori – ROME (Econostream) – The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) on Wednesday allotted £1.25 billion nominal of the 0⅛% Index-linked Treasury Gilt 2031.
1 July 2026 Debt Issuance News
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s June rate hike was necessary even if a milder inflation scenario now materializes, but the Governing Council is not pre-committed to any future path, ECB Governing Council member Martin Kocher said Wednesday.
1 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Mārtiņš Kazāks said on Wednesday that the ECB was under no pressure to act urgently or deliver repeated interest rate hikes in the current environment.
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By Marta Vilar – SINTRA, Portugal – European Central Bank Governing Council member Alexander Demarco said on Wednesday that policymakers should not rush into further monetary tightening, citing the sharp decline in oil prices.
1 July 2026 Central Bank News
By Marta Vilar – SINTRA, Portugal (Econostream) – Following is a transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 30 June 2026 with Pierre Wunsch, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank.
1 July 2026 Central Bank News