The Dynamics of Government Bond Yields in the Eurozone." Annals of Financial Economics 12(3): 1750011-18.The dynamics of government bond yields in the Euro Zone. AKRAM T,DAS A. . 2017b. "The Dynamics of Government Bond Yields in the Eurozone." Levy Economics Institute Working Paper No. ...
Concerns about growing public debt and uncertainty about the timing of Italy's recovery plan continued to weigh on Italy's bond prices, which move inversely with yields. Italy's 10-year government bond yield was up 3 basis points at 1.01%, after touching a new hi...
The premise behind the moral suasion hypothesis is that peripheral governments force domestic banks to absorb more of their own sovereign debt because overall demand is weak and to reduce sovereign bond yields. This hypothesis also implies an increase in home bias over time. The above discussion ...
Benchmark European government bond yields fell alongside the euro as traders reduced bets on an imminent interest rate hike by the bloc's central bank after data showed easing underlying inflation.
Eurozone bond yields, which move inversely to prices, have plumbed record lows for several months on the back of robust investor demand and hopes that the ECB’s QE programme will push them lower still. In turn, a quarter of the existing eurozone government bond market — or €1.2tn — ...
Eurozone bond yields Ten-year government bond yield % Source: Thomson Reuters Datastream Managing supply chain exposures Since 2008 buyers have become increasingly aware that the cost of sustaining a supply chain is often less than that of seeing it collapse. This means actively looking for ways to...
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the geographical area containing the countries that have joined the European single currency Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 ...
Where should bond yields be if the ECB was not the largest purchaser of Eurozone bonds? We do not know for sure, as there is no discernible secondary demand at these levels. At the peak of QE in the US, the Federal Reserve was never 100% of net issuances of treasuries. Today, the ...
And nothing that has happened so far is close to the problems seen in 2011-2012. The spread between Portuguese and German 10 year bond yields hit more than 1,550 basis points then; the February 2016 high was just shy of 380 bps. ...
Spreads between government bond yields in the Eurozone periphery and Germany have fallen to the lowest levels in 3 to 4 years. There are two major factors behind this. The first is the speech by ECB President Mario Draghi on 26 July 2012 promising ‘to do – within its mandate – whatever...