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# bond-markets - Monday 21 May, 2012

From Business ETC Bond Markets

Noonan dismisses plan for government bonds linked to tax income

Mon, 2:11 PM 2,084 Views 10 Comments

Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath had asked the finance minister to consider a bond specifically linked to exchequer returns.

# bond-markets - Friday 4 May, 2012

From Business ETC Bond Markets

Norway sells off its entire stash of Irish government bonds

04/05/12 8,857 Views 76 Comments

The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund fears that Ireland and Portugal bonds are not ‘predictable’ and could default.

# bond-markets - Thursday 19 April, 2012

From Business ETC Spain

Rates up but Spanish bond sale passes off

19/04/12 1,473 Views 2 Comments

Spain sold €2.5 billion in debt successfully this morning, with higher interest from investors than expected.

# bond-markets - Tuesday 17 April, 2012

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Spanish bond sale passes off with higher than expected investor interest

17/04/12 1,188 Views 4 Comments

But analysts say the big test comes on Thursday, at Spain’s next debt auction.

# bond-markets - Monday 16 April, 2012

From Business ETC Spain

Spanish bond yields pass 6 per cent mark

16/04/12 1,629 Views 9 Comments

Concerns build that Spain will follow Greece, Portugal and Ireland in needing a bailout.

# bond-markets - Wednesday 11 April, 2012

Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Wednesday

11/04/12 5,173 Views 6 Comments

All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as the few bits and pieces you might not have seen.

From Business ETC Bond Markets

ECB may re-enter bond markets after Italian auction flops

11/04/12 2,302 Views 13 Comments

Investors declined the opportunity to buy short-term Italian bills this morning, seeing interest rates double from last month.

# bond-markets - Tuesday 10 April, 2012

Take 5

The 5 at 5: Tuesday

10/04/12 4,514 Views 8 Comments

5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock…

From Business ETC Bond Markets

Back to the markets: NTMA prepares to issue annuity bond

10/04/12 2,258 Views 15 Comments

The National Treasury Management Agency will sell annuity bonds, possibly up to 35 years in maturity, later this year.

# bond-markets - Thursday 8 March, 2012

From Business ETC Every Cloud...

At least someone’s making money: ECB profits quadrupled last year

08/03/12 2,236 Views 6 Comments

A ballooning balance sheet and bigger roles in the bond markets meant the ECB turned profits of €728m, up from €171m.

# bond-markets - Tuesday 21 February, 2012

From Business ETC Bond Auction

Borrowing costs for eurozone bailout fund fall after Greek deal

21/02/12 1,510 Views 7 Comments

The EFSF issues a new round of 6-month bills – with interest rates significantly lower than at the same time last month.

From Business ETC Bond Markets

ECB steers clear of bond-buying for first time since August

21/02/12 1,150 Views 2 Comments

Last week marked the first time in six months that the European Central Bank didn’t intervene in the sovereign bond markets.

# bond-markets - Tuesday 14 February, 2012

From Business ETC Downgrade

Interest rates plunge as Italy raises €6 billion in new auction

14/02/12 3,023 Views 19 Comments

What downgrade? Italy flogs billions in 12-year bonds with interest rates falling dramatically on a similar bond last month.

From Business ETC Hell-as

Greece’s budget deficit for 2012 is already €1bn bigger than expected

14/02/12 2,058 Views 41 Comments

Greece expected its income for January to be 8.9 per cent higher than last year. It actually fell… by 7 per cent.

# bond-markets - Wednesday 8 February, 2012

From Business ETC Bondholder This post contains videos

This man owns €1.9bn in Irish government bonds

08/02/12 10,439 Views 195 Comments

And he’s pretty confident about Ireland’s ability to recover from the economic crisis…

# bond-markets - Wednesday 25 January, 2012

From Business ETC Bond Markets

Ireland returns to bond markets with €3.53 billion ‘swap offer’

25/01/12 3,879 Views 25 Comments

The NTMA swaps €3.5bn in bonds, which were maturing in January 2014, for paper maturing in February 2015.

# bond-markets - Tuesday 17 January, 2012

From Business ETC EFSF

EU bailout fund overcomes downgrade with successful bond auction

17/01/12 95 Views No Comments

The EFSF sells six-month bills with an average interest rate of 0.2664 per cent – despite being downgraded yesterday.

From Business ETC Bondwatch

Spain raises nearly €5bn in successful short-term bond auction

17/01/12 864 Views 4 Comments

Spain sees the interest rate for 12-month bonds fall significantly, while Belgium has mixed results in an auction of its own.

# bond-markets - Monday 16 January, 2012

From Business ETC Bond Markets

Back with a bang: ECB bought €3.77 billion of bonds last week

16/01/12 2,225 Views 7 Comments

After slowly winding down its programme of hoovering up eurozone debt, the ECB was called back into action in a big way.

# bond-markets - Saturday 14 January, 2012

In Numbers

Prime numbers: the week in stats

14/01/12 4,047 Views 21 Comments

How many Irish towns are ‘clean’? How much for an e-voting machine? And just how hard can a Sudoku be?

# bond-markets - Friday 13 January, 2012

Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Friday

13/01/12 3,952 Views 1 Comment

In tonight’s fix: Downgrades for France – and difficulty for us? Plus: yet more rows over septic tanks, victory for workers at La Senza, and every presentation you’ve ever seen…

5 At 5

The 5 at 5: Friday

13/01/12 3,814 Views 12 Comments

5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock…

From Business ETC Back To Life

Ireland plans to return to bond markets this year

13/01/12 1,906 Views 17 Comments

The NTMA’s John Corrigan reveals that Ireland will stage a “phased re-entry” with the sale of short-term bonds this year.

# bond-markets - Tuesday 10 January, 2012

From Business ETC Federal Reserve

Federal Reserve hands over $76.9 billion profit to US government

10/01/12 5,474 Views 42 Comments

The United States’ central bank made a near-record profit last year, thanks to its growing stash of US government bonds.

# bond-markets - Monday 9 January, 2012

Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Monday

09/01/12 5,124 Views 2 Comments

In tonight’s fix: Calls to negotiate a second bailout, Gardaí investigate woman’s death in nursing home, and which celebrity chef has been a very naughty boy?

From Business ETC Bonds

The bond markets are now paying Germany to borrow money

09/01/12 4,395 Views 29 Comments

Germany this morning issued a new batch of 6-month bills – and demand was so intense that the yield is negative.

# bond-markets - Thursday 5 January, 2012

From Business ETC Bailout

EU fund issues new bonds to pay for Irish bailout

05/01/12 2,541 Views 29 Comments

The European Financial Stability Fund says it issued €3bn in three-year bonds, at a rate over four times cheaper than we’d get.

# bond-markets - Wednesday 4 January, 2012

From Business ETC Bond Auctions

Euro nears 12-month low after poor demand at German auction

04/01/12 2,284 Views 8 Comments

While the demand for the latest batch of 10-year bonds was higher than November, it was far below the usual standard.

# bond-markets - Monday 2 January, 2012

Bonds

ECB spending on controversial buying nears €140 billion

02/01/12 2,487 Views 17 Comments

The ECB’s continued purchases in 2011 mean the central bank now holds over €210 billion of bonds from its member countries.

# bond-markets - Thursday 29 December, 2011

From Business ETC Review 2011 This post contains images

Recessions, downgrades and Super Mario – 2011: the year in money

29/12/11 1,301 Views 5 Comments

2011 may be remembered in future as the year we sorted out the financial crisis – or the year in which it grew beyond our control.

# bond-markets - Tuesday 13 December, 2011

From Business ETC Bond Auctions

Belgium, Spain and bailout fund perform better in bond auctions

13/12/11 1,193 Views 1 Comment

There’s little respite for Greece, though, which is asked to pay a higher yield on an experimental auction of short-term bonds.

# bond-markets - Monday 12 December, 2011

From Business ETC Credit Ratings

Second ratings agency set to downgrade EU member states

12/12/11 1,156 Views 14 Comments

Moody’s follows the lead of Standard & Poor’s, complaining about “the absence of measures to stabilise credit markets”.

# bond-markets - Thursday 1 December, 2011

From Business ETC Bond Markets

Ireland’s doing better on the bond markets than everyone else (ish)

01/12/11 7,439 Views 20 Comments

The Bank of England has been comparing the borrowing costs of countries in June and again last month – and we’re doing okay.

# bond-markets - Tuesday 29 November, 2011

From Business ETC Italy

Italy pays nearly 8 per cent for three-year bonds

29/11/11 1,146 Views 8 Comments

Italy faces its highest cost of borrowing ever, raising €3.5bn through the sale of three-year bonds at rates of 7.9 per cent.

# bond-markets - Monday 28 November, 2011

From Business ETC Belgium

Belgium follows Italy, Germany in seeing borrowing costs surge

28/11/11 1,864 Views 6 Comments

Belgium successfully raises €450m in a bond auction, but pays its highest yield since 2000 – up by 1.3 per cent from last month.

# bond-markets - Friday 25 November, 2011

From Business ETC Bond Markets

Italy heads for bailout territory after awful bond auction

25/11/11 1,604 Views 12 Comments

Italy raises €10bn in two short-term auctions – but sees its interest rates go through the roof, and into unsustainable levels.

# bond-markets - Wednesday 23 November, 2011

From Business ETC Markets

“Disaster” German bond auction sends European markets down

23/11/11 2,394 Views 18 Comments

Germany issues €6bn in 10-year bonds – but only €3.8bn were sold, leaving the central bank to step in and buy the rest.

# bond-markets - Monday 21 November, 2011

Debt Crisis

Student study: Ireland could write off 85 per cent of its European debt

21/11/11 11,467 Views 55 Comments

The pan-European ESCP business school says Ireland could get rid of €184bn in debts – by simply cancelling them out with others.

# bond-markets - Thursday 17 November, 2011

From Business ETC Spainwreck

Spain in the firing line as borrowing costs hit new highs

17/11/11 1,142 Views 15 Comments

The price of borrowing for Spain is approaching the 7 per cent barrier, after both Spain and France struggled with bond auctions.

# bond-markets - Wednesday 16 November, 2011

New Beginning

Monti announces Italian cabinet – and will be his own finance minister

16/11/11 1,122 Views 12 Comments

The new Italian cabinet is made up mostly of independent technocrats, and will see Monti double up as PM and finance minister.

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