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EGB SUMMARY
EGB SUMMARY: Core EGBs have had a volatile start to European trading Thursday,
with Spanish and French supply up this morning, and the ECB decision later.
- The Jun 19 Bund future has traded in a wide range early of 163.43-163.68, last
up 10 ticks at 163.65.
- The German 2-Yr yield is down 1.2bps at -0.529%, 5-Yr is down 1.2bps at
-0.325%, 10-Yr is down 0.6bps at 0.122%, and 30-Yr is down 0.5bps at 0.776%.
- Our preview of today`s ECB meeting (get in touch if you`d like to see it)
suggests the baseline outlook is for ECB to signal but not launch new TLTROs,
downgrade 2019 forecasts, and not change f`wd guidance.
- Supply this morning includes Spain selling up to E4.5bln in nominal
Bonos/Oblis and linkers, and France selling L/T OATS for for a combined
E8.0-9.0bln.
- Spreads a little wider in the EGB periphery, 10-Yr BTPs 3.7bps wider to Bunds,
and Spain/Portugal/Greece out 1.1-1.3bps.
- At 1730GMT, ECB's Praet participates in a round-table discussion in Paris (on
the economic impact of male-female inequality, so unlikely market-moving).

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