On Wednesday 25 February, the Kingdom of Belgium  issued within the framework of its EMTN-programme a new 3-year bond in USD at a spread of + 1 bp over mid-swap.

This new USD 2 billion bond matures on 5 March 2018 and pays a coupon of  1.125%.
The issue has been swapped into euro in order to cancel any currency risk.
After swap the cost for the Kingdom represents a negative yield.
With this transaction, the Belgian Debt Agency has completed, after only 2 months, more than 30% of its...

The Belgian Federal Government Debt amounted to EUR 387.18 billion as of 31 January 2015.
Debt issued or taken over by the federal government amounted to EUR 386.88 billion, and the institutions for which the federal government supports the debt service, registered a debt of EUR 0.30 billion.
In net terms (i.e. deducting financial deposits and investments, as well as securities owned by the Treasury), the Federal Government Debt amounted to EUR 372.88 billion.

Press release from the Belgian Debt Agency

The Belgian Debt Agency informs you that it has accepted bids of Treasury certificates for a total amount of EUR 2.407 billion, distributed into the following lines :
ISIN Code : BE0312718878 - 14/05/2015
Amount taken (EUR billion): 0.806
Weighted average yield : -0.153 %
Bid-to-cover ratio : 2.62
ISIN Code : BE0312727960 - 11/02/2016
Amount taken (EUR billion): 1.601
Weighted average yield : -0.125 %
Bid-to-cover ratio : 1.42

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The Minister of Finance, Johan Van Overtveldt, announces :
The Kingdom of Belgium intends to issue a new long 15 year EURO syndicated benchmark bond maturing 22nd June, 2031 (OLO 75) in the near future, subject to market conditions.
The Kingdom has mandated BNP Paribas Fortis, Crédit Agricole CIB, J.P. Morgan and SG CIB as joint bookrunners. 
The auction scheduled for 16th February, 2015 is cancelled.

The Belgian Debt Agency informs you that it has accepted bids of Treasury certificates for a total amount of EUR 2.010 billion, distributed into the following lines :
ISIN Code : BE0312718878 - 14/05/2015
Amount taken (EUR billion): 0.900
Weighted average yield : -0.161 %
Bid-to-cover ratio : 1.73
ISIN Code : BE0312720890 - 16/07/2015
Amount taken (EUR billion): 1.110
Weighted average yield : -0.157 %
Bid-to-cover ratio : 1.43

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Belgian citizens and health professionals can from now on consult www.info-ebola.be  for complete and up to date information on Ebola. This website is a joint initiative of the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM), the different health authorities and the Belgian Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP).