Euro zone bonds struggle for direction after Ukraine talks, eyes on Jackson Hole

Time of India

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Euro zone government bonds were in a holding pattern on Tuesday as traders looked ahead to a symposium of global central bankers later in the week, and after talks in Washington on ending Russia's war in Ukraine.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told Fox News on Monday that U.S. President
Donald Trump
's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other European and NATO partners had been very successful.
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Euro zone bonds struggle for direction after Ukraine talks, eyes on Jackson Hole
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Germany's 10-year bond yield, the euro zone benchmark, was down about 1 basis point (bp) at 2.763%. It hit a 4-1/2 month high of 2.787% on Monday. Yields move inversely with prices.
Germany's two-year yield, which is sensitive to changes in interest rate expectations, was steady at 1.968%.
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"The easy explanation for the inactivity in the market today is that we don't know about progress in the Ukraine talks," said Rene Albrecht, analyst at DZ
Bank
.
"The next issue is monetary policy in the U.S. and the discussion about whether the Fed is going to cut in September or not."
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is due to speak at the Kansas City Fed's annual symposium in Jackson Hole, as money market traders stick with their bets for a rate cut next month.
Futures imply around an 85% chance of a quarter-point rate cut at September 16-17 meeting, little changed from the day before. The Fed's policy rate has been in the 4.25%-4.50% range since December.
The size and importance of the U.S. economy means changes in Fed rate expectations often influence European and other bond
markets
.
Expectations for European Central Bank interest rates remain well-anchored in the near term, with markets expecting the central bank to remain on hold in September.
Italy's 10-year bond yield was down 1 bp at 3.584%, keeping the spread between Italian and German 10-year yields unchanged at 82 bps.
The gap between Italian and French 10-year yields continues to narrow, last at about 13.5 bps.
"(Italian Prime Minister Giorgia) Meloni has brought calm back to Italian politics and the path of the budget is in line with EU norms," DZ Bank's Albrecht said.
"France is totally different. You have a risk in Paris that the National Assembly fires the prime minister and then you have the political instability issue again."
France's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou unveiled his 2026 budget plan in July that included almost 44 billion euros ($51.39 billion) of cuts.
The budget is likely to draw resistance from opposition Socialist lawmakers when parliament returns from recess next month, putting Bayrou's government at risk of being toppled.
($1 = 0.8562 euros)