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Thursday, 31 March 2022

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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221. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield and interest rate on the Irish ten-year bond from 2019 to the latest date possible, disaggregated by month, if possible. [17192/22]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) that the below tables show the generic 10-year Irish bond yield at each month-end since 2019. The figure for March 2022 is as of 30thMarch. The data is sourced from Bloomberg.

2019 Month Jan-19 Feb-19 Mar-19 Apr-19 May-19 Jun-19 Jul-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Oct-19 Nov-19 Dec-19
Yield 0.87% 0.82% 0.55% 0.55% 0.42% 0.17% 0.08% -0.09% -0.04% 0.00% 0.04% 0.11%
2020 Month Jan-20 Feb-20 Mar-20 Apr-20 May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20 Oct-20 Nov-20 Dec-20
Yield -0.15% -0.17% 0.06% 0.04% 0.08% 0.00% -0.12% -0.05% -0.17% -0.26% -0.27% -0.31%
2021 Month Jan-21 Feb-21 Mar-21 Apr-21 May-21 Jun-21 Jul-21 Aug-21 Sep-21 Oct-21 Nov-21 Dec-21
Yield -0.19% 0.10% 0.05% 0.18% 0.20% 0.16% -0.07% 0.00% 0.18% 0.33% 0.11% 0.24%
2022 Month Jan-22 Feb-22 Mar-22
Yield 0.51% 0.75% 1.23%

Since the start of 2019, the NTMA has launched, by syndication, four new 10-year benchmark bonds; in January 2019, June 2020, January 2021 and most recently in January of this year.

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