Italy is still due to sell bills this week, while Germany, France, Austria and Greece have already come to the market this week. We expect issuance to be E21.4bln in first round operations, up from E19.4bln last week.

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Austria and Italy are both due to sell bills this week, whilst Germany and France have already issued. We expect issuance to be E18.8bln in first round operations, a little lower than the E19.0bln last week.

For more on future auctions see the full MNI Eurozone/UK T-bill auction calendar here.
EURGBP continues to trade closer to its recent lows. A resumption of weakness would expose the key short-term support at 0.8248, the Feb 3 low. Clearance of this level would strengthen a short-term bearish condition. Note that the early February bounce does highlight a possible bullish reversal theme. Clearance of 0.8378, the Jan 6 high and a key short-term pivot resistance, would be a positive development for bulls.
The trend condition in the Eurostoxx 50 futures contract remains up and last week’s climb to a new alltime high on the continuation contract, reinforces a bull theme. Note too that moving average studies are in a bull-mode set-up, highlighting a dominant uptrend and positive market sentiment. Sights are on 5574.57 next, a Fibonacci projection. Initial firm support to watch is 5387.59, the 20-day EMA. A pullback would be considered corrective.