France is running a 5%-of-gross-domestic-product budget deficit, with prospects of consolidation faint at least until ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The European Central Bank is still far away from resuming debt purchases to inject liquidity into the banking system as it first needs to work off more of the bonds it bought over ...

Investors are betting that today's rate increase from the European Central Bank won't be its last, adding fuel to a selloff ...

In the teeth of Bundesbank resistance, the European Central Bank (ECB) set out its bond-buying plan this Thursday, balancing the need to stabilize sovereign debt markets while seeking to promote ...

By Harry Robertson LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Traders in the euro area were bracing for interest rate hikes well into next ...

Germany’s parliament is expected to put to bed Thursday fears that the country’s powerful central bank could be barred from participating in a crucial eurozone-wide bond-buying scheme. In a stunning ...

The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rose to 4.867% and the 10-year German Bund yield hit 3.451%, its highest level since 2011 ...

Major central banks face significant unrealized and realized losses from quantitative easing as rising bond yields erode the value of their bond portfolios. Operating losses and duration mismatches ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is capping its weekly bond purchases at 20 billion euros and euro zone officials want banks to use its big new liquidity offer to buy more sovereign debt ...

President Mario Draghi says Outright Monetary Transactions in secondary markets will serve as a “fully effective backstop” against mkt volatility. Mumbai : The European Central Bank (ECB) announced a ...

Central banks purchase bonds and other securities with their own reserves. In doing so, they expand the supply of safe assets in the economy, which should lower the premium investors are willing to ...