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...Meanwhile, the recent rally for shorter-dated German government bonds ran out of steam, with the two-year Schatz yield rising 3bp to minus 0.92 per cent, as the 10-year French bond yield fell 3bp to 0.89...
...“The primary driver of lower Schatz yields is not safe-haven demand, but rather the European Central Bank via, firstly, recently started sub-deposit rate purchases by the Bundesbank; and secondly, an ongoing...
...“French sovereign spreads widening to levels last seen in 2012 at the same time as a flight-to-quality bid pushes two-year German Schatz yields to record, negative, new lows reflects renewed fears of a euro...
...On Friday, the euro was off another 0.6 per cent to $1.0553 but the 10-year German Bund yield — which moves inversely to its price — fell 3 basis points to 0.35 per cent, while 2-year Schatz yields hit record...
...The yield on the 10-year Bund, which moves inversely to its price, fell 6 basis points to 0.25 per cent, after the two-year Schatz yield hit a record low of minus 0.82 per cent....
...In Germany, the prospect of further ECB asset purchases helped push the yield on the two-year Schatz to a record low of minus 0.24 per cent, while that on the 10-year Bund fell 3bp to 0.45 per cent....
...The yield on the 10-year German Bund fell 4bp to 0.27 per cent, the lowest since April last year, while that on the two-year Schatz touched a record low of minus 0.5 per cent, amid expectations that the...
...The German two-year Schatz yield held steady at minus 0.41 per cent on Friday but was down from minus 0.39 per cent a week earlier....
...Ahead of the ECB’s decision, the yield on the German two-year Schatz touched a record low of minus 0.45 per cent....
...Its spread over the German two-year yield widened to the most in more than nine years as the Schatz fell 3bp to minus 0.41 per cent....
...That on the German 10-year Bund jumped 19bp to 0.66 per cent, while the two-year Schatz rose 14bp to minus 0.30 per cent....
...The German Schatz yield fell as low as minus 0.32 per cent, taking the US-German two-year spread to the widest since 2006....
...The two-year German Schatz yield hit a record low of minus 0.28 per cent....
...The German two-year Schatz yield, which ended on Wednesday just short of minus 0.20 per cent, briefly spiked to minus 0.17 per cent before ending the day roughly where it started....
...The yield on the 10-year Bund rose 7 basis points to 0.52 per cent, while that on the two-year Schatz held steady at minus 0.16 per cent. The 10-year US Treasury yield was 5bp higher at 1.86 per cent....
...The two-year Schatz yield closed at -0.01 per cent after ending the previous session at -0.04 per cent....
...The German Schatz yield moved to -0.07 per cent from -0.02 per cent. In equity markets, the FTSE Eurofirst 300 index jumped 1.1 per cent to its highest finish since early 2008....
...The yield on the German 10-year government bond fell 3 basis points to 1.33 per cent while the two-year Schatz yield slipped to 0.05 per cent, the lowest since November 2013....
...The two-year US Treasury yield was up 2 basis points to 0.45 per cent while that on the German Schatz eased 2bp to 0.16 per cent....
...The Bund yield settled 5bp lower at 1.16 per cent and that on the Schatz fell the same amount to minus 0.03 per cent. Ten-year French and Belgian yields touched record lows....
...The two-year German Schatz yield, which is particularly sensitive to rate expectations, jumped 22 basis points to 1.78 per cent – the highest in 20 months....
...In Germany, the rate-sensitive two-year Schatz outperformed 10-year Bunds after the cost of overnight lending fixed lower on Friday for the first time in a week....
...The two-year Schatz yield fell 8bp to 0.96 per cent, widening the yield spread between two- and 10-year debt by 5.5bp to 200bp....
...The two-year Schatz outperformed after a larger-than-forecast take-up of European Central Bank funding by banks....
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