Stabilizing trends prevail today in the secondary bond market, as the ΕΚΤ is preparing to “close the curtain” on emergency support measures while paving the way for higher interest rates.
Today, the Spanish Central Banker Pablo Hernandez di Coos called for a rapid normalization of monetary policy. Olli Rehn’s Finnish counterpart followed suit, stressing that the ECB should quickly abandon negative interest rates.
In the domestic bond market and more specifically in HDAT, transactions of 238 million euros were recorded, of which 76 million euros related to purchase orders. The yield on the 10-year bond stood at 3.57% from 3.68% yesterday, compared to 1.05% of the corresponding German bond, resulting in a margin of 2.52%.
In the foreign exchange market, the euro is slightly lower against the dollar as the European currency traded early in the afternoon at $ 1.0511 from the level of 1.0543 $ when the market opened.
The indicative price for the euro / dollar exchange rate. announced by the ECB reached $ 1.0523.
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