Euro zone bond yields edge up as focus shifts to Fed, BoJ and data
Data from Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) will be released later in the session.
Euro area borrowing costs fell on Monday as markets pushed back bets on a 25-basis-point rate cut to March 2026, with economists warning that investors may be overstating the European Central Bank's hawkish message at last week's meeting.
Sovereign bond markets showed quite a muted reaction to the trade deal between the U.S. and the European Union.
Markets are pricing a 68% chance of an ECB rate cut by December - with a depo rate seen at 1.83% from the current 2% - and a 90% probability of the same move in March 2026.
They had priced a deposit rate at 1.73% in December early last week, before the ECB meeting and before a U.S.-Japan trade deal helped ease recession fears tied to a possible trade war.
Germany's 10-year government bond yield, the euro area's benchmark, was up 0.5 bps at 2.69%.
German 2-year government bond yields – more sensitive to expectations for European Central Bank policy rates – were unchanged at 1.90%.
Italy's 10-year government bond yields were up 0.5 bps at 3.54%, with the spread between BTP and Bund yields - a market gauge of the risk premium investors demand to hold Italian debt - at 84 bps. It hit 82.30 bps last week, its lowest level since April 2010.
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