# bond-auction - Thursday 18 April, 2013
The T-Bills were sold at a yield of 0.19 per cent.
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# bond-auction - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
The NTMA cancels €500 million of debts due to mature next month, after buying the bonds on the second-hand market.
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# bond-auction - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
The NTMA planned to raise about €3bn in an auction – but got bids for over four times as much, leading to the sale of €5bn.
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# bond-auction - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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The short-notice auction is the biggest since we were bailed out – and helps build up a cash buffer ahead of fiscal independence.
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# bond-auction - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
From Business ETC AIB
The almost entirely State-owned bank raises €500 million by selling a bond which is not guaranteed by the government.
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# bond-auction - Wednesday 14 November, 2012
The bank has become the first bailed-out lender to raise money on the open markets, raising €1 billion in a bond auction.
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# bond-auction - Saturday 15 September, 2012
Just HOW well did Ireland do at the Paralympics? And which country’s population has the most smokers?
# bond-auction - Thursday 13 September, 2012
The NTMA successfully raises €500 million at a cost far lower than two months ago.
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# bond-auction - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
The treasury agency will auction €500 million of three-month bills on Thursday.
# bond-auction - Sunday 9 September, 2012
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Classic cars, M’s letter opener, first-edition Fleming books and Daniel Craig’s sunglasses: all up for grabs in charity 50 Years of James Bond auction.
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# bond-auction - Saturday 4 August, 2012
How much gold is in an Olympic Gold medal? And just how bad IS that South Korean archer’s vision?
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# bond-auction - Tuesday 3 July, 2012
The first auction will be held on Thursday.
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# bond-auction - Thursday 7 June, 2012
The cost of bailing out Spain’s banks could be as high as €100 billion, the ratings agency warned as it forecast a recession for the rest of this year and next.
# bond-auction - Thursday 19 April, 2012
Government plans to auction up to €2.5bn in bonds today in a key test of investor confidence.
# bond-auction - Tuesday 21 February, 2012
The EFSF issues a new round of 6-month bills – with interest rates significantly lower than at the same time last month.
# bond-auction - Tuesday 14 February, 2012
What downgrade? Italy flogs billions in 12-year bonds with interest rates falling dramatically on a similar bond last month.
# bond-auction - Tuesday 17 January, 2012
From Business ETC EFSF
The EFSF sells six-month bills with an average interest rate of 0.2664 per cent – despite being downgraded yesterday.
Spain sees the interest rate for 12-month bonds fall significantly, while Belgium has mixed results in an auction of its own.
# bond-auction - Monday 9 January, 2012
Germany this morning issued a new batch of 6-month bills – and demand was so intense that the yield is negative.
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# bond-auction - Tuesday 13 December, 2011
There’s little respite for Greece, though, which is asked to pay a higher yield on an experimental auction of short-term bonds.
# bond-auction - Tuesday 29 November, 2011
Italy faces its highest cost of borrowing ever, raising €3.5bn through the sale of three-year bonds at rates of 7.9 per cent.
# bond-auction - Monday 28 November, 2011
Belgium successfully raises €450m in a bond auction, but pays its highest yield since 2000 – up by 1.3 per cent from last month.
# bond-auction - Thursday 24 November, 2011
Mario Monti will hold a ‘mini-summit’ with the French and German leaders amid jitters over yesterday’s bond auction fiasco.
# bond-auction - Wednesday 23 November, 2011
Germany issues €6bn in 10-year bonds – but only €3.8bn were sold, leaving the central bank to step in and buy the rest.
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# bond-auction - Thursday 16 June, 2011
Ireland and Greece can’t follow the recovery mode as Iceland did, finance minister Steingrimur Sigfusson insists.
# bond-auction - Thursday 23 September, 2010
The National Treasury Management Agency raises some more short-term cash – but sells off less than the maximum.
# bond-auction - Thursday 9 September, 2010
The NTMA sells off 5- and 7-month bonds at smaller yields than two weeks ago, despite the spike in 10-year bond rates.
# bond-auction - Tuesday 20 July, 2010
THE NATIONAL TREASURY MANAGEMENT AGENCY has successfully raised €1.5bn in its latest bond auction – but has been forced into offering higher interest rates than it was two months ago.
Although the successful auction has resulted in nearly 90% of Ireland’s borrowing targets for 2010 being met already, just over halfway through the year, the auction was hit by Moody’s decision to downgrade Ireland’s rating yesterday.
The decision – which relabelled Irish debt from Aa1 to Aa2, meaning it was considered slightly riskier than previously – forced interest rates on ten-year bonds up to 5.537% – a significant increase on 4.72% rate offered only two months ago.
The rates offered on six-year bonds was slightly down on last month’s price, however. Bonds sold for 4.496%, down from 4.521% last month.
The NTMA has tried to portray the auction in a good light, however, saying it has guaranteed that the exchequer will be “fully funded” into the second quarter of 2011.
