Bond Markets
# bond-markets - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
Ireland buys back €500 million of its own bonds
The NTMA cancels €500 million of debts due to mature next month, after buying the bonds on the second-hand market.
# bond-markets - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
NTMA announces issue of new 10-year bond ‘in due course’
The bond will help restore market confidence in Ireland.
# bond-markets - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Draghi: ECB’s bond-buying programme can’t help Ireland escape bailout
The ECB president says the bank won’t use its bond-buying programme to ease Ireland out if its EU-IMF funding.
# bond-markets - Friday 8 February, 2013
Ireland’s cost of borrowing falls as NTMA formally issues new bonds
The body that manages Irish debt has formally issued new bonds to replace the promissory notes.
# bond-markets - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
Ireland to sell €500 million Treasury Bills this week
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.
# bond-markets - Wednesday 9 January, 2013
NTMA in talks with investors on selling new 10-year bonds
The body in charge of Ireland’s borrowing says it’s looking at trying to sell Ireland’s first 10-year bond since 2010.
# bond-markets - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
Ireland raises another €2.5bn at the bond markets
The short-notice auction is the biggest since we were bailed out – and helps build up a cash buffer ahead of fiscal independence.
# bond-markets - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
Greek buy-back deal would wipe €20 billion off national debt
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
Ireland’s cost of borrowing falls to lowest since April 2010
Bond markets responded positively to Greece’s proposal to buy back its debts – and Ireland is benefiting.
# bond-markets - Monday 3 December, 2012
Greece asks creditors to sell their bonds back to the government
Athens will buy back its bonds, for between 30 and 40 per cent of their face value, in order to clear its debts.
# bond-markets - Wednesday 14 November, 2012
Fitch takes Ireland’s credit rating off ‘negative’ watch list
Ireland’s credit rating is still only BBB+, but Fitch says it’s no longer expecting to downgrade us again.
# bond-markets - Saturday 20 October, 2012
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# bond-markets - Thursday 27 September, 2012
Spain to announce Budget – with €39bn of cuts on the table
Prime minister Mariano Rajoy will hope that the hard-hitting Budget will soften the terms of any prospective bailout.
# bond-markets - Thursday 20 September, 2012
Cost of government borrowing reaches lowest level since bailout
Interest on a 9-year Irish bond – the benchmark bond currently in circulation – has fallen below 5 per cent.
# bond-markets - Thursday 13 September, 2012
Bond auction sees Ireland’s cost of borrowing fall dramatically
The NTMA successfully raises €500 million at a cost far lower than two months ago.
# bond-markets - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
Cost of borrowing for Ireland falls after German court ruling
The green light for the ESM from the German constitutional court has driven down the yield on Irish government bonds.
NTMA chief: It’s looking good for ‘sustainable’ re-entry to markets
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
NTMA to raise another €500m on bond markets this week
The treasury agency will auction €500 million of three-month bills on Thursday.
# bond-markets - Friday 7 September, 2012
ECB’s bond-buying is not a breach of its rules – Merkel
But that’s not what her Central Bank thinks…
# bond-markets - Thursday 6 September, 2012
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ECB may buy Irish bonds at end of bailout programme
The European Central Bank’s new bond-purchasing programme will see the bank lend to countries coming out of bailout programmes.
# bond-markets - Thursday 2 August, 2012
S&P: Return to markets is promising – but we won’t increase Ireland’s rating
The return to the bond markets is “an indication of progress”, it says – but the cost of borrowing is still way too high.
# bond-markets - Monday 30 July, 2012
Whatever it takes: Stocks rise as leaders make eurozone pledge
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.
# bond-markets - Friday 27 July, 2012
Irish bond auction welcomed but ‘country is still on life support’
The NTMA auctioned over €4 billion in Irish bonds yesterday in the first long-term debt sale since the bailout.
# bond-markets - Thursday 26 July, 2012
Mario Draghi: The ECB will do “whatever it takes” to save the euro
Stock markets around the world rocketed after the usually reserved ECB president insisted the euro would not be abandoned.
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Ireland raises €4.19 billion in first return to bond markets
Investors were willing to give us €4.19 billion in loans maturing in 2017 and 2020 – but they come at a cost.
# bond-markets - Saturday 30 June, 2012
Everything you wanted to know about the bond markets but were too afraid to ask
Ireland’s ongoing struggle is to get back to the markets – but what ARE the bond markets? Here’s our grind.
# bond-markets - Tuesday 26 June, 2012
Ireland still planning to issue short-term bonds this summer
The NTMA says it wants to get back to issuing some bills ‘during the summer months’ to warm up for full re-entry.
Spanish borrowing costs nearly triple in short-term auction
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
Spanish auction sees cost of short-term loans rocket… again
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
Euro crisis: Spanish cost of borrowing hits 7pc as investors seek safety
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
11 things to know about the IMF’s latest Irish review
The latest IMF update on Ireland’s financial health, summarised into handy bitesized chunks.
IMF approves €1.4bn loan – but has doubts about Ireland’s return to markets
The latest quarterly review of Ireland’s bailout paints a mixed picture…
# bond-markets - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
Even Germany’s cost of borrowing is beginning to rise again
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
Euro crisis: Spain’s cost of borrowing rockets as Lagarde warns of ‘race against time’
If you were lending cash to the Spanish government for 10 years, you’d get an annual interest rate of 6.76 per cent.
# bond-markets - Monday 11 June, 2012
German conditions on Spanish bank deal strike blow to Ireland’s hopes
Germany ensured that Spain’s €100bn banking bailout would go through the government – meaning it counts towards national debt.
# bond-markets - Friday 8 June, 2012
Brussels and Berlin: ‘No news’ on potential Spanish request for bailout
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
Spain sees borrowing costs rise, while France’s hit euro-era lows
It’s a tale of two Europes as countries go to the bond markets this morning…
# bond-markets - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
Spain: We’re being frozen out of markets, and we need help now
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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