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ECB Brings Relief to Battered Bond Markets With New Tool
Date: June 15, 2022
By Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) -Relief swept over battered euro zone bond markets on Wednesday as the European Central Bank said it would skew reinvestments of maturing debt to help more indebted members and will devise a new instrument to stop excessive widening of yield spreads. Just this month alone, Italian 10-year bond yields have...
Franklin Templeton’s Zahn Says New ECB Tool Unlikely for Now
Date: June 15, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – The ECB is unlikely to introduce a new tool just yet to address strain in euro area bond markets, and may instead prefer to stress bond reinvestments, Franklin Templeton’s head of European fixed income David Zahn said on Wednesday. The European Central Bank has called a rare, unscheduled meeting on Wednesday to...
Euro Zone Spreads Hit Fresh Highs Amid Rising Yields
Date: June 14, 2022
By Stefano Rebaudo MILAN (Reuters) – Euro zone government bond yields hit fresh multi-year highs on Tuesday while spreads between core and periphery widened amid concerns about accelerated central bank monetary tightening. Yield spreads have been widening since Thursday’s European Central Bank policy meeting when the bank flagged interest rate hikes to contain high inflation...
UniCredit Well Placed to Weather Italian Debt Volatility – CFO
Date: June 8, 2022
MILAN (Reuters) – UniCredit is well placed to withstand volatility in Italian government bonds, the group’s finance chief said on Wednesday, dismissing concerns about the impact of a recent widening in spreads with German debt. The premium Italian bonds pay over safer German Bunds hit a two-year high this month, at more than 2 percentage...
Global Bond Funds Gain First Weekly Inflow in Two Months
Date: June 3, 2022
(Reuters) – Global bond funds obtained inflows in the week to June 1 after eight weeks of outflows, lifted by strong demand as fears over aggressive monetary tightening and excessive price pressures eased. Investors purchased a net $6.16 billion worth of global bond funds in their first weekly net buying since March 30, marking the...
UK Government Bonds Surge on Gloomy BoE Growth View
Date: May 5, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – Short-dated British government bond prices surged on Thursday as investors judged that the Bank of England’s gloomy economic growth outlook would slow the pace of interest rate rises, despite inflation being set to reach double figures. The BoE raised interest rates to 1% from 0.75%, predicted inflation would exceed 10% in the...