ITALY T-BILL AUCTION PREVIEW: On offer next week
Feb-07 16:41
Italy has announced it will be looking to sell E8.0bln of the new 12-month Feb 13, 2026 BOT at its auction next Wednesday, February 12.
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EGB SYNDICATION: Italy Dual-Tranche: New 10-year / New 20-year Green: Priced
Jan-08 16:40
New 10-year - record book for a single tranche
- Reoffer: 99.577 to yield 3.733%
- Size: E13bln (MNI expected E10bln)
- Spread set earlier at Feb-35 BTP + 7bp (guidance was + 9bps area)
- Benchmark price ref: 101.84 / 3.663%
- Books in excess of E142bln (ex JLM interest) - record single tranche book
- Maturity: 1 August 2035
New Green 20-year
- Reoffer: 99.465 to yield 4.181%
- Spread set at 4.45% Sep-43 BTP +5bp (guidance was + 8bps area)
- Benchmark price ref: 104.66 4.131%
- Books in excess of E127bln (ex JLM interest) pre-rec
- Size previously set: E5bln WNG
- Maturity: 30 April 2046
For both:
- Bookrunners: Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, BNP PARIBAS (DM/B&D), Citi, Crédit Agricole CIB, NatWest Markets and UniCredit
- Settlement: 15 January 2025 (T+5)
- Timing: Price 16:22GMT / 17:22CET, FTT immediately
- Record dual-tranche book size
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FED: US TSY 17W BILL AUCTION: HIGH 4.190%(ALLOT 22.73%)
Jan-08 16:32
- US TSY 17W BILL AUCTION: HIGH 4.190%(ALLOT 22.73%)
- US TSY 17W BILL AUCTION: DEALERS TAKE 35.31% OF COMPETITIVES
- US TSY 17W BILL AUCTION: DIRECTS TAKE 5.56% OF COMPETITIVES
- US TSY 17W BILL AUCTION: INDIRECTS TAKE 59.13% OF COMPETITIVES
- US TSY 17W BILL AUCTION: BID/CVR 3.24
US-EU: Blinken And Barrot Downplay Greenland Comments, Indicate Gaza Progress
Jan-08 16:24
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot have spoken on a range of issues to reporters at a press conference in Paris, following a bilateral meeting earlier today.
- At the top of the presser, both ministers note that the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire agreement is operating as planned, with a withdrawal of 30% of Israeli troops from Lebanon underway.
- On Gaza, Blinken says: “We’re very close to a ceasefire and hostage agreement… I hope we can get it over the line in the time we have left but if we don’t, then the plan will be handed over to the [Trump administration].”
- Blinken reiterated that a “transformative” agreement to normalise relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia is “ready to go” if there is a ceasefire in Gaza.
- On US President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed acquisition of Greenland, Blinken said: “The idea expressed about Greenland is obviously not a good one, but maybe more important: It’s obviously one that is not going to happen, so we probably shouldn’t waste a lot of time talking about it.”
- Barrot says that the Franco-US relationship has survived 59 US elections, and “will survive the 60th”.
- Barrot: “Do we think the US will take Greenland? The answer is no… That being said we are entering a period of time where force is present everywhere…”
- Barrot quotes a comment from French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday saying that Europe needs to “wake up” and “strengthen up”.
