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UPDATE 3-Euro zone bond yields do an about-turn after U.S. inflation data

May 11, 2022By Reuters
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By Dhara Ranasinghe and Joice Alves

LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) – Euro zone government bond yields rose on Wednesday after data showing a bigger-than-expected rise in inflation last month in the United States.

Data showing U.S. annual inflation rose 8.3% in April, down from 8.5% a month earlier, but above analyst expectations for an 8.1% rise, triggered a wave of selling in bonds.

Germany’s 10-year Bund yield was last up 1.5 basis points on the day at 1.018% DE10YT=RR, having fallen just below 1%, its lowest level in almost a week earlier.

“I think it is natural to see yields rising after a strong core CPI like we had,” said Peter McCallum, rates strategist at Mizuho.

But capping the yields rally, a 75 basis point hike from the Federal Reserve seems out of sight at this point, McCallum added. “I think there’s enough that the market can look at in that report to not necessarily price too much more hawkishness from the Fed,” he said.

Italian 10-year bond yields also rose after the U.S. CPI data but was last close to their lowest in almost a week hit earlier in the day, at 2.93% IT10YT=RR.

Earlier in the session, yields across the currency bloc fell to their lowest levels in almost a week, with investors taking comfort from signs that any tightening in European Central Bank monetary policy will be gradual.

The ECB is likely to end its bond-buying stimulus programme early in the third quarter, followed by a rate hike that could come just “a few weeks” later, ECB President Christine Lagarde said. nL5N2X32V5

Analysts said the tone of ECB comments on Wednesday suggested a gradual rather than rapid rate-hike path, taking the edge off the aggressive rate-rise bets that drove borrowing costs across the bloc to multi-year highs as recently as Monday.

The ECB’s Francois Villeroy de Galhau said the ECB would start raising rates gradually from the summer. nL5N2X31SB

“One part of the message from the ECB is that rate hikes will start in July, but the other part is that the path will be gradual, which is what Lagarde is suggesting, too,” said Jan von Gerich, chief analyst at Nordea.

In another volatile session for bond markets, a key gauge of the market’s long-term euro area inflation expectations bounced back to almost 2.25% after the U.S. data. It fell to a seven-week low at 2.1939% EUIL5YF5Y=R earlier.

Elsewhere, the European Union priced 9 billion euros of bonds, maturing in 2025 and 2051, according to a memo seen by Reuters from one of the banks managing the syndicated-bond sale.

Germany sold 3.23 billion euros of 10-year Bunds and Portugal auctioned 750 million euros of bonds maturing in 2030. nS8N2UP081

(Reporting by Dhara Ranasinghe; Editing by Hugh Lawson, Kim Coghill and Mark Heinrich)

((Dhara.Ranasinghe@thomsonreuters.com; +442075422684;))

This article originally appeared on reuters.com

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