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3/7/15-year BTPs

ITALY AUCTION PREVIEW

Italy will come to the market this morning to sell up to E9bln of 3/7/15-year BTPs. This will include the launch of the new 3-year BTP.

  • 0% Aug-24 BTP: E4.0-4.5bln of the new 0% Aug-24 will be on offer this morning. This will replace the 0% Apr-24 BTP as the 3-year benchmark. There had been monthly auctions of the 0% Apr-24 between March to June, all of which saw bid-to-covers between 1.35-1.41x. The launch auction for the 0% Apr-24 BTP was a little larger at E5.0bln while reopenings have been between E3-4bln.
  • 0.50% Jul-28 BTP: This will be the third auction of the benchmark 7-year BTP. The 0.50% Jul-28 was launched in May for E4.5bln and reopening in June for E2.5bln while E2.25-2.75bln will be on offer today.
  • 0.95% Mar-37 BTP: E12.4bln of the 15-year BTP is currently outstanding and a further E1.25-1.75bln will be on offer today. The BTP was launched via syndication in January with E10bln sold with a book size of over E105bln. It was then reopened in April for E2bln (a further E0.4bln sold non-competitively) with a bid-to-offer of 1.47x.
  • Timing: Results will be available shortly after the auction closes at 10:00BST.

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