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Euro zone yields dip, ECB says could reduce bonds buys

The central bank ramped up buying of sovereign bonds after a surge in U.S. Treasury yields lifted borrowing costs in the bloc and threatened Europe's tentative recovery.

Updated 09 Apr, 2021 12:08am

Europe Fixed Income

Euro zone bond yields flat, Italy's new issuance in focus

Italy started the process of selling new 50-year and 7-year bonds via a syndicate of banks on Wednesday, having flagged the new issues the previous day.

Updated 08 Apr, 2021 09:06am

Europe Fixed Income

Euro zone bond yields up in wake of U.S. jobs data

Lower-rated Southern European bonds underperformed higher-rated peers, with yields rising 3 to 7 basis points. Bond yields move inversely with prices.

Published 07 Apr, 2021 01:09am

Europe Fixed Income

Euro zone bond yields fall despite a surge in inflation

Inflation excluding food and energy prices, a less volatile measure that the ECB watches more closely, slowed to 1%.

Published 31 Mar, 2021 11:47pm

Europe Fixed Income

Euro zone yields rise, but surging COVID-19 cases fuel caution

German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the weekend pressured states to step up their pandemic response to try to stem the rise in cases.

Published 30 Mar, 2021 02:23am

Europe Fixed Income

Euro zone bond yields stable in aftermath of EU proposal

 Focus remained on the fund on Thursday and Italy's bonds remained near those levels. 
 The 10-year yield was las

Published 28 May, 2020 10:41am

Europe Fixed Income

Yields rise as European stimulus plan boosts risk appetite

 Benchmark 10-year note yields rose one basis point to 0.706pc. 
 The yields have traded in a range from 0.543pc

Published 27 May, 2020 03:16pm

Europe Fixed Income

Euro zone bond yields edge down; focus on EU recovery fund

 Hopes for a co-ordinated fiscal response to the coronavirus crisis have been boosted since France and Germany made

Published 27 May, 2020 11:54am

Europe Fixed Income

German Bund yield rises to one-week high as world sentiment rebounds

 Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria will sell bonds worth at least 12.7 billion euros later this session.

Published 26 May, 2020 11:40am

Financial

Italy's bond yields fall to 7-week low, Bund yields at one-month high

 As 10-year Italian bond yields fell to their lowest in seven weeks, the gap over top-rated German Bund yields fell

Published 26 May, 2020 10:38am

Europe Fixed Income

Italian bond yields set for biggest weekly fall in 8 weeks

The proposal helped to push Italy's 10-year bond yield down 22 basis points this week, its largest weekly fall in e

Published 22 May, 2020 10:50am

Europe Fixed Income

JGB yields fall taking cues from US Treasuries

Benchmark 10-year JGB futures rose 0.09 point to 152.36, with a trading volume of 10,396 lots, while the 10-year JG

Published 21 May, 2020 01:26pm

Europe Fixed Income

Italian bond yields up marginally, still close to recent low

The premium Italy pays over the benchmark German 10-year Bund yield rose slightly as well to near 211 bps. Spa

Published 21 May, 2020 11:52am

Europe Fixed Income

Italian bonds react little to hawkish counter-proposal to recovery fund

Italy's 10-year bond yield was up only 2 basis points at 1.66%, near the five-and-a-half-week lows reached after Fr

Published 20 May, 2020 10:26am

Europe Fixed Income

UK sees record 53bn pound demand for new 40-year bond

The 0.5% October 2061 gilt was priced to pay a yield of 0.5852%, the same yield as the 4% January 2060 gilt . This

Published 19 May, 2020 05:15pm

Europe Fixed Income

Romania could issue more eurobonds this year

Romania sold 1.3 billion euros worth of five-year Eurobonds at 305 basis points over mid-swaps and 2 billion euros

Published 19 May, 2020 03:50pm

Financial

Southern European bond yields tumble on EU recovery fund proposal

Spanish and Portuguese yields led the move lower after a big drop in Italian yields on Monday. The proposals

Published 19 May, 2020 03:48pm

Europe Fixed Income

Southern European yields reverse course; Italy ratings test looms

Italian bond yields initially rose on Friday after EU leaders agreed to build an emergency fund to help states reco

Published 24 Apr, 2020 12:07pm

Europe Fixed Income

Italian bonds rally on coronavirus optimism, Macron's joint bond push

Italy's two-year yields were down 11 basis points to 0.83pc, while the 10-year yield was last down 9 basis point at

Published 17 Apr, 2020 01:20pm

Europe Fixed Income

Italy bond yields fall as much as 20 bps, amid talk of intervention

Euro zone finance ministers last week agreed a half-a-trillion-euro plan to support coronavirus-hit economies.

Published 16 Apr, 2020 12:40pm

Europe Fixed Income

UK bonds retain strong auction demand as record issuance mounts

British government bond futures rallied by around 10 ticks to touch their day's high after the auction, up 38 ticks

Published 15 Apr, 2020 11:34am

Europe Fixed Income

Italian yields falls as EU finance ministers meet again on rescue package

However, euro bonds remain out of the question, Finance Minister Gernot Bluemel said on Thursday. The 10-year

Published 09 Apr, 2020 11:56am

Europe Fixed Income

German Bond yields touch one-week highs on coronavirus slowdown hopes

Italy reported its lowest daily COVID-19 death toll for more than two weeks on Sunday, while France's daily death c

Published 06 Apr, 2020 01:04pm

Financial

Bank of England keeps 13.5bn pound weekly pace of gilt purchases

The central bank will hold three reverse auctions a day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, buying 1.5 billion poun

Published 03 Apr, 2020 01:34pm

Financial

Euro zone bond yields rise with new supply due from Spain, France

The 10-year German government bond yield rose 4 basis points to -0.426pc, pulling away from the lows of -0.55pc tou

Published 02 Apr, 2020 10:55am

Europe Fixed Income

European yields fall as investors search for safety

More than 850,000 cases and 42,000 deaths have been reported across 205 countries and territories, according to a R

Published 01 Apr, 2020 01:57pm

Europe Fixed Income

Italian bonds 'encouragingly' steady as debt auction flies

Italy's Treasury comfortably sold the top planned volume of 8.5 billion euros ($9.4 billion) over four bonds on Tue

Published 31 Mar, 2020 01:07pm

Europe Fixed Income

German yields fall to 10-day low; ECB impact remains in focus

Germany's 10-year bond yields fell to a 10-day low in early trade at -0.45%. Ten-year Italian bond yields were

Published 27 Mar, 2020 12:56pm

Europe Fixed Income

Italian bonds rally as ECB removes barriers in crisis fighting purchases

The ECB also said it would buy debt with maturity as short as 70 days, compared with one year under previous purcha

Published 26 Mar, 2020 01:52pm

Financial

Southern Europe bonds rally as ECB pushes boundaries with new plan

The ECB said it would not apply its self-imposed purchase limits for any individual countries and would buy debt wi

Published 26 Mar, 2020 11:39am

Europe Fixed Income

German govt bond yields edge down after ultra-weak PMIs

Euro zone business activity crumbled, with IHS Markit's euro zone composite flash purchasing managers index (PMI) p

Published 24 Mar, 2020 12:31pm

Europe Fixed Income

Euro zone bond markets little changed; Bund yields down from 10-month highs

The 10-year Bund yield last traded at around -0.36pc, down more than 20 bps from last week's 10-month highs. U

Published 23 Mar, 2020 11:35am

Europe Fixed Income

Euro zone bond yields tumble as risk sentiment picks up

Norway's central bank became the latest to cut rates while China was set to unleash trillions of yuan of fiscal sti

Published 20 Mar, 2020 01:25pm

Europe Fixed Income

German Bund yields back within striking distance of record lows

The prospect of a prolonged economic slowdown across the globe whacked equity markets and sent investors, once aga

Published 06 Mar, 2020 01:40pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 7	278.70
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 7	278.50
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 7	158.20
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 7	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 7	1.25
Euro to USD / Jan 7	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 7	5,909.03
India Sensex / Jan 7	77,947.47
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 7	40,058.48
Nasdaq / Jan 7	19,489.68
Hang Seng / Jan 7	19,135.88
FTSE 100 / Jan 7	8,245.28
Dow Jones / Jan 7	42,528.36
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 7	20,340.57

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 7	74.56
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 7	18,285
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 7	236,625
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 7	2,647.82
Cotton US¢/pound / Jan 7	68.37
Petrol/Litre / Jan 8	252.66

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Pak Gen.Ins. / Jan 8 The Pakistan General Insurance Co. Ltd.(PKGI)	9.60 ▲ 0.97 (11.24%)
JS Bank Ltd / Jan 8 JS Bank Limited(JSBL)	10.41 ▲ 1.00 (10.63%)
PICIC Ins.Ltd. / Jan 8 PICIC Insurance Limited(PIL)	3.19 ▲ 0.30 (10.38%)
Idrees Tex. / Jan 8 Idrees Textile Mills Limited(IDRT)	15.68 ▲ 1.43 (10.04%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Jan 8 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	12.38 ▲ 1.13 (10.04%)
D.M. Textile / Jan 8 D.M. Textile Mills Limited(DMTX)	60.58 ▲ 5.51 (10.01%)
Dawood Lawrencepur / Jan 8 Dawood Lawrencepur Limited(DLL)	296.12 ▲ 26.92 (10.00%)
JDW Sugar / Jan 8 JDW Sugar Mills Limited(JDWS)	904.95 ▲ 82.27 (10.00%)
Pakistan Cables / Jan 8 Pakistan Cables Limited(PCAL)	198.34 ▲ 18.03 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
JS Mom. Factor ETF / Jan 8 JS Momentum Factor ETF(JSMFETF)	15.44 ▼ -1.89 (-10.91%)
Ali Asghar / Jan 8 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	78.82 ▼ -8.76 (-10.00%)
Khairpur Sug. / Jan 8 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	133.71 ▼ -14.86 (-10.00%)
Liven Pharma / Jan 8 Liven Pharma Limited(LIVEN)	178.53 ▼ -19.84 (-10.00%)
Baba Farid Sugar / Jan 8 Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited(BAFS)	43.50 ▼ -4.75 (-9.84%)
F.Credit & Inv / Jan 8 First Credit and Investment Bank Limited(FCIBL)	7.52 ▼ -0.78 (-9.40%)
Sindh Abadgar / Jan 8 Sindh Abadgar's Sugar Mills Limited(SASML)	37.40 ▼ -3.85 (-9.33%)
Shahzad Tex. / Jan 8 Shahzad Textile Mills Limited(SZTM)	27.10 ▼ -2.77 (-9.27%)
TPL Life Insur. / Jan 8 TPL Life Insurance Limited(TPLL)	50.01 ▼ -4.56 (-8.36%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 8 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	80,583,371 ▲ 0.01
Cnergyico PK / Jan 8 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	76,600,722 ▼ -0.04
K-Electric Ltd. / Jan 8 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	45,707,217 ▲ 0.06
Fauji Foods Ltd / Jan 8 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	36,987,542 ▲ 0.09
Sui South Gas / Jan 8 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	33,354,890 ▲ 1.91
Pak Stock Exchange / Jan 8 Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited(PSX)	27,144,749 ▲ 0.97
Pak Refinery / Jan 8 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	23,513,012 ▲ 0.37
B.O.Punjab / Jan 8 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	22,768,455 ▲ 0.03
Pak Elektron / Jan 8 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	20,370,180 ▲ 0.68

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