The ECB's plan for using climate factors to adjust collateral haircuts doesn't bite where it should, argues the founder of ...

Euro zone bond yields rose as traders reevaluated the impact of U.S. Federal Reserve decisions on Europe. Bond yields in Germany and Italy increased following speculation about a potential interest ...

Euro zone bond yields climbed on Monday, reversing last week's decline driven by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Data showed ...

The AFII, a think tank which studies bond market responses to climate change, has analysed this issue in a research report ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) announced that demand for Euro-denominated international bonds and loans increased 40% in 2024, reaching levels not seen since the global financial crisis.

Having vanquished high inflation, the ECB is reviewing its long-term strategy, including the role of massive bond purchases, or quantitative easing (QE). An announcement is expected in coming weeks.

The ECB did not disappoint in its decision to start a vast bond purchase program. While we had little doubt that such a program would be announced, some of the details go beyond what we expected.

With bond yields higher now, as represented in the chart below of the 10-year German Bund at 2.50%, the market value for the ECB’s bond holdings is lower than the cost.

German bond yields are at or near all-time lows, an indication that demand for safety remains elevated despite the LTROs. Clearly, solvency is the issue, not liquidity.

A lack of new ECB purchases last week means the bank has only used the programme once since mid-February. It has spent 212.0 billion euros on bonds since launching the programme in May 2010.

The European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Martins Kazaks said that the ECB has entered a new monetary-policy phase where officials can focus on monitoring the economy rather than ...

The ECB has now spent 60.5 billion euros since it started buying government bonds back in early May in response to the euro zone debt crisis. Sign up here.