Euro Rate

Euro zone bank-to-bank lending rates hit 21-month lows on Thursday amid the ample cash supplied by the European Central Bank since late last year. The ECB, which left official euro zone interest rates at 1 percent last week, has put over 1 …

LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) – Euro zone money market rates are likely to stay pinned at rock-bottom levels for years by the weight of cheap ECB cash in the system, even if banks choose to repay the central bank loans early. The European Central …

Kansas City StarMONEY MARKETS-Liquidity glut drives Euribor lending rates lowerReutersThe European Central Bank has flooded the financial market with over 1 trillion euros in 3-year loans – or LTROs – to ease banks' funding stress. Since the first …

Three-month Euribor rates, traditionally the main gauge of unsecured interbank euro lending and a mix of interest rate expectations and banks’ appetite for lending, fell to 0.783 percent on Thursday – the lowest level since the start of July …

“This reduction in the usage of the ECB’s dollar facility is not surprising, given that private markets are more readily providing dollars,” said Elaine Lin, rate strategist at Morgan Stanley. The three month euro/dollar cross-currency basis …

“There is no hurry for the ECB to ease or exit.” A Reuters poll showed the ECB was expected to keep rates on hold in the foreseeable future.

MONEY MARKETS-Fed rate-hike bets on the rise, seen outpacing ECBReutersDespite some spillover from the United States, euro zone interest rate futures reflect a more cautious long-term outlook, with fears that low growth would hurt the bloc's chance…

with U.S. rates seen rising faster than those in the crisis-hit euro zone. A run of strong economic data has raised speculation that the Fed may need to look again at its commitment to keep interest rates low until the end of 2014. “Obviously …

MONEY MARKETS-Euribor futures fall on euro zone debt concernsReuters"Clearly the weak data in the euro zone helped and this kind of focus on the periphery, that there is no normalisation in the debt crisis, is introducing risk-off moves in the mar…

“Clearly the weak data in the euro zone helped and this kind of focus on the periphery, that there is no normalisation in the debt crisis, is introducing risk-off moves in the market which in turn pushes rates lower.” Financial markets are …