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Draft 2025 budget, 2026 framework include record
investments
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German 30-year yield on track for biggest daily rise since
May
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Berlin to issue 19 million euros more debt in Q3 than
expected
(Recasts to focus on German budget, updates moves, adds
context, analyst comment)
By Linda Pasquini and Amanda Cooper
LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - Germany's long-term
government bond yields rose on Tuesday after the cabinet passed
a draft budget for 2025 and framework for 2026 that include
record investments in both years to stimulate growth in Europe's
biggest economy.
Traders were also watching the Middle East, where Israeli
Defence Minister Israel Katz said he had ordered a strike on
Tehran in response to what he said were Iranian missiles fired
in violation of a ceasefire announced hours earlier by U.S.
President Donald Trump.
The ceasefire had raised hopes of an end to the 12-day war
even as deadly attacks were reported in both countries.
But euro zone government bond yields, unlike most other
asset classes on Tuesday, were largely focussed on the German
news.
German 10-year yields extended earlier small
gains and were last up nearly 5 basis points at 2.55%, while
30-year yields rose almost 8 bps to 3.059%, set for
their biggest one-day increase since the beginning of May. They
had earlier hit their highest level in nearly a month.
"It's all about the new (German) budget and the new supply
of bonds coming into markets in the coming years," said Nabil
Milali, portfolio manager at Edmond de Rothschild Asset
Management, noting that the announced measures included larger
investments than markets had anticipated and were to be
implemented more quickly than expected.
The country's finance agency said earlier in the day that
Germany planned to issue 19 billion euros ($22 billion) more in
debt in the third quarter than initially expected.
It did not plan to issue a 50-year bond this year but the
conditions have been created to do so in the future, it said.
Two-year Schatz yields, which are more sensitive
to interest rates, were little changed at 1.85%, bringing the
spread between 2-year and 10-year yields to its widest in a week
at 69.60 bps.
"The reaction is stronger to the upside on long-end yields
because the short-term bonds are also conditioned by the ECB's
prospects of rate cutting," Milali said.
The European Central Bank can further cut interest rates at
a time of huge volatility in energy markets, policymaker
Francois Villeroy de Galhau told the Financial Times in an
interview published on Tuesday.
Several ECB policymakers were set to speak on Tuesday,
including President Christine Lagarde and chief economist Philip
Lane later on.
Monday's survey of business activity showed the euro zone
economy flat-lined for a second month in June, as the dominant
services sector showed only small signs of improvement and
manufacturing none at all.
For now, traders expect the ECB to deliver one more rate cut
this year as inflation is nearing the central bank's target.
Tuesday's drop in oil prices following the ceasefire
announcement helped preserve those expectations.
It brought losses over the past week to around 10%, which
helped soothe investor concerns about a potential energy price
shock compounding economic uncertainty linked to U.S. tariffs.
Meanwhile, Italian 10-year BTP yields were flat
at 3.507%, leaving the premium over Bunds at 94.60 bps
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($1 = 0.8624 euros)