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On Thursday, the NTMA sold €500 million of bonds due in 2027.
NTMA raises €1.5bn mainly at negative rates

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) sold €1.5 billion of bonds on Thursday, mainly at negative rates, as it continues to build up the Gover(...)

Central Bank governor Gabriel Makhlouf: said Government supports should be focused on boosting economic activity and avoiding long-term unemployment. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Central Bank governor to call for ‘credible’ path’ to cut State debt post-Covid-19

Central Bank governor Gabriel Makhlouf will tell the Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 on Tuesday that the Government must set out a “clear and(...)

President Michael D Higgins. Photograph: Iain White/Fennell Photography
Is President Higgins right to downgrade the rating agencies?

President Michael D Higgins gave a bit of a kicking to rating agencies on Wednesday during a question-and-answer session in the wake of a lengthy onli(...)

‘Ireland’s robust economic performance and policy environment underpin its enhanced resiliency to shocks,’ according to Kroll
Ireland’s credit rating goes up a notch thanks to healthy economy

Debt ratings agency Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) has upgraded its rating on Ireland’s creditworthiness by one level to AA- on the back of the State(...)

Former Sri Lankan prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, surrounded by party parliamentarians, participates in religious observances after signing his letter of resignation from the post at his official residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka. File photograph: M.A. Pushpa Kumara/EPA
Sri Lankan prime minister resigns 1½ months into job

Sri Lanka’s embattled prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned on Saturday, only a month and a half after taking office and giving the country’s pres(...)

Fitch sees slower pace of rating upgrades in euro zone

The pace of rating upgrades in the euro zone will be slower in future as fiscal progress remains sluggish, Fitch’s global head of sovereign ratings Ja(...)