# bondwatch - Monday 14 January, 2013
From Business ETC Bond
The repayment is part of over €17 billion that will be paid to bondholders by Irish banks in 2013.
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# bondwatch - Thursday 13 September, 2012
The NTMA successfully raises €500 million at a cost far lower than two months ago.
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# bondwatch - 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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# bondwatch - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
The treasury agency will auction €500 million of three-month bills on Thursday.
# bondwatch - Friday 7 September, 2012
From Business ETC ECB
But that’s not what her Central Bank thinks…
# bondwatch - Thursday 6 September, 2012
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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# bondwatch - Thursday 5 July, 2012
The NTMA is set to try and raise money for the first time since Ireland was bailed out, with a €500m debt auction.
# bondwatch - 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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# bondwatch - Tuesday 26 June, 2012
Spain issued some 3-month and 6-month bills this morning – but saw its rates rocket following its bailout request.
# bondwatch - 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.
# bondwatch - Monday 18 June, 2012
The costs had fallen after Greece’s election, but are back up this morning as the fear of contagion remains…
# bondwatch - 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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# bondwatch - Monday 28 May, 2012
All the day’s main news as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed…
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Every morning, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you kick off your day.
# bondwatch - Friday 25 May, 2012
Anyone who bought Irish bonds second-hand 12 months ago must be feeling pretty smug by now…
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# bondwatch - Monday 21 May, 2012
Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath had asked the finance minister to consider a bond specifically linked to exchequer returns.
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# bondwatch - Friday 4 May, 2012
The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund fears that Ireland and Portugal bonds are not ‘predictable’ and could default.
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# bondwatch - Wednesday 11 April, 2012
Investors declined the opportunity to buy short-term Italian bills this morning, seeing interest rates double from last month.
# bondwatch - Tuesday 10 April, 2012
The National Treasury Management Agency will sell annuity bonds, possibly up to 35 years in maturity, later this year.
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# bondwatch - Tuesday 17 January, 2012
From Business ETC EFSF
The EFSF sells six-month bills with an average interest rate of 0.2664 per cent – despite being downgraded yesterday.
Spain sees the interest rate for 12-month bonds fall significantly, while Belgium has mixed results in an auction of its own.
# bondwatch - Monday 16 January, 2012
After slowly winding down its programme of hoovering up eurozone debt, the ECB was called back into action in a big way.
# bondwatch - Friday 13 January, 2012
A French downgrade is bad news for us, too – because Europe’s bailout fund is also likely to be downgraded by S&P.
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The NTMA’s John Corrigan reveals that Ireland will stage a “phased re-entry” with the sale of short-term bonds this year.
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The financially troubled country received a favourable response to its latest bond auction.
# bondwatch - Friday 22 July, 2011
The cost of borrowing for Europe’s strugglers is falling this morning, after leaders struck deals on gentler bailouts.
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# bondwatch - Monday 18 July, 2011
Some of Europe’s largest economies will find it tougher and tougher to survive without a crippling bailout…
# bondwatch - Wednesday 13 July, 2011
From Business ETC Junk
Jose Manuel Barroso’s spokesman says the Commission can’t understand why Moody’s is taking such a dim view.
If Ireland borrowed for two years, it would have to pay 18.6 per cent interest – 14 times what Germany would.
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# bondwatch - Thursday 24 March, 2011
The costs of borrowing for both Ireland and Portugal take a battering in the aftermath of the latter’s prime minister quitting.
# bondwatch - Wednesday 16 March, 2011
The ratings agency cuts the rating it gives to Portuguese government debt, down two notches from A1 and A3.
# bondwatch - Tuesday 8 March, 2011
The price of government borrowing was higher yesterday than it was when we accepted the €67.5bn bailout in November.
# bondwatch - Wednesday 16 February, 2011
Portugal issues €1bn in twelve-month bills, while buying back some of its older debt – but the results aren’t ideal.
# bondwatch - Wednesday 15 December, 2010
The ratings agency says it’s considering a downgrade for Spain – but the news doesn’t make a major impact on bond markets.
# bondwatch - Thursday 2 December, 2010
Is the Eurozone debt crisis dying? Spain’s bond yields might be up, but the Euro is picking up speed afterward.
# bondwatch - Monday 29 November, 2010
The Euro stays flat, but Ireland’s bailout hasn’t stopped worries over Spain and Portugal’s ability to repay their debts.
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# bondwatch - Thursday 25 November, 2010
Fears over the future of Ireland’s economy, and whether a bailout can be secured, sends borrowing costs to new highs.
# bondwatch - Wednesday 24 November, 2010
Shares in AIB, Bank of Ireland and Irish Life & Permanent all continue to dive, as the cost of government borrowing shoots up.
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# bondwatch - Tuesday 23 November, 2010
The markets are officially over the Irish bailout: bank shares are diving, while bond yields are still on the up.
# bondwatch - Thursday 18 November, 2010
The eyes of the world are on Ireland – and their judgement is that we now “expect” billions and billions in help.
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