# bond-markets - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
The NTMA cancels €500 million of debts due to mature next month, after buying the bonds on the second-hand market.
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# bond-markets - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
The bond will help restore market confidence in Ireland.
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# bond-markets - Thursday 7 March, 2013
From Business ETC ECB
The ECB president says the bank won’t use its bond-buying programme to ease Ireland out if its EU-IMF funding.
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# bond-markets - Friday 8 February, 2013
The body that manages Irish debt has formally issued new bonds to replace the promissory notes.
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# bond-markets - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
The auction is the latest in a series of measures undertaken by the National Treasury Management Agency as it looks to return Ireland to normal lending markets.
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# bond-markets - Wednesday 9 January, 2013
The body in charge of Ireland’s borrowing says it’s looking at trying to sell Ireland’s first 10-year bond since 2010.
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# bond-markets - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
The short-notice auction is the biggest since we were bailed out – and helps build up a cash buffer ahead of fiscal independence.
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# bond-markets - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
The deal will see some people get only a third of their money back – but others will get three times their investment.
# bond-markets - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
Bond markets responded positively to Greece’s proposal to buy back its debts – and Ireland is benefiting.
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# bond-markets - Monday 3 December, 2012
Athens will buy back its bonds, for between 30 and 40 per cent of their face value, in order to clear its debts.
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# bond-markets - Wednesday 14 November, 2012
Ireland’s credit rating is still only BBB+, but Fitch says it’s no longer expecting to downgrade us again.
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# bond-markets - Saturday 20 October, 2012
How much does it cost to bring football into disrepute on Twitter? And how do NAMA’s accounts look?
# bond-markets - Thursday 27 September, 2012
Prime minister Mariano Rajoy will hope that the hard-hitting Budget will soften the terms of any prospective bailout.
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# bond-markets - Thursday 20 September, 2012
Interest on a 9-year Irish bond – the benchmark bond currently in circulation – has fallen below 5 per cent.
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# bond-markets - Thursday 13 September, 2012
The NTMA successfully raises €500 million at a cost far lower than two months ago.
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# bond-markets - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
The green light for the ESM from the German constitutional court has driven down the yield on Irish government bonds.
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However, John Corrigan does warn that “wider uncertainties” in the eurozone could be risk factor to Ireland’s progress.
# bond-markets - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
The treasury agency will auction €500 million of three-month bills on Thursday.
# bond-markets - Friday 7 September, 2012
From Business ETC ECB
But that’s not what her Central Bank thinks…
# bond-markets - Thursday 6 September, 2012
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
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From Business ETC ECB
The European Central Bank’s new bond-purchasing programme will see the bank lend to countries coming out of bailout programmes.
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# bond-markets - Thursday 2 August, 2012
The return to the bond markets is “an indication of progress”, it says – but the cost of borrowing is still way too high.
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# bond-markets - Monday 30 July, 2012
There is speculation that the eurozone bailout fund and the ECB could buy-up Spanish bonds in a bid to alleviate fears about the single currency.
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# bond-markets - Friday 27 July, 2012
The NTMA auctioned over €4 billion in Irish bonds yesterday in the first long-term debt sale since the bailout.
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# bond-markets - Thursday 26 July, 2012
Stock markets around the world rocketed after the usually reserved ECB president insisted the euro would not be abandoned.
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Things we learned, loved and shared today.
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Investors were willing to give us €4.19 billion in loans maturing in 2017 and 2020 – but they come at a cost.
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# bond-markets - Saturday 30 June, 2012
Ireland’s ongoing struggle is to get back to the markets – but what ARE the bond markets? Here’s our grind.
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# bond-markets - Tuesday 26 June, 2012
The NTMA says it wants to get back to issuing some bills ‘during the summer months’ to warm up for full re-entry.
Spain issued some 3-month and 6-month bills this morning – but saw its rates rocket following its bailout request.
# bond-markets - Tuesday 19 June, 2012
Spain sold off €3 billion in 12-month bills, but paid the price as investors continued to demand a high premium for their money.
# bond-markets - Monday 18 June, 2012
The costs had fallen after Greece’s election, but are back up this morning as the fear of contagion remains…
# bond-markets - Friday 15 June, 2012
The latest IMF update on Ireland’s financial health, summarised into handy bitesized chunks.
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The latest quarterly review of Ireland’s bailout paints a mixed picture…
# bond-markets - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
Although Germany’s bond yields are still far lower than a year ago, it’s been rising sharply in the last few days…
# bond-markets - Tuesday 12 June, 2012
If you were lending cash to the Spanish government for 10 years, you’d get an annual interest rate of 6.76 per cent.
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# bond-markets - Monday 11 June, 2012
Germany ensured that Spain’s €100bn banking bailout would go through the government – meaning it counts towards national debt.
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# bond-markets - Friday 8 June, 2012
Both the European Commission and the German government say Spain has not made a formal application for EU funding.
# bond-markets - Thursday 7 June, 2012
It’s a tale of two Europes as countries go to the bond markets this morning…
# bond-markets - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
The Spanish treasury minister says Spain “doesn’t have the market door open”, at a time it needs cash to help its banks.
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