The Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP) published its annual report 2016.

The Belgian Debt Agency informs you that it has accepted bids for a total amount of EUR  2.802 billion, distributed into the following lines :
- OLO 0.20 % 22/10/2023 (OLO79)
ISIN code : BE0000339482
Amount taken (EUR billion): 1.012
Weighted average yield : 0.020 %
Bid-to-cover ratio : 1.620
- OLO 4.50 % 28/03/2026 (OLO64)
ISIN code : BE0000324336
Amount taken (EUR billion): 0.875
Weighted average yield : 0.368 %
Bid-to-cover ratio : 1.780

The Belgian Debt Agency informs you that the range for the upcoming auction on Monday, 23 October 2017, has been determined at EUR 2.3/2.8 billion

The Belgian Debt Agency informs you that the following 3 OLO lines will be auctioned on Monday, 23 October 2017 :

The Belgian Debt Agency informs you that it has accepted bids of Treasury certificates for a total amount of EUR 2.102 billion, distributed into the following lines :

The Belgian Federal Government Debt amounted to EUR 393.17 billion as of 30 September 2017.
Debt issued or taken over by the federal government amounted to EUR 392.92 billion, and the institutions for which the federal government supports the debt service, registered a debt of EUR 0.25 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 379.21 billion.

The Belgian Debt Agency informs you that it has accepted bids of Treasury certificates for a total amount of EUR 1.680 billion, distributed into the following lines :
ISIN Code : BE0312750228 - 11/01/2018
Amount taken (EUR billion): 0.665
Weighted average yield : -0.652 %
Bid-to-cover ratio : 3.71
ISIN Code : BE0312752240 - 08/03/2018
Amount taken (EUR billion): 1.015
Weighted average yield : -0.622 %
Bid-to-cover ratio : 2.09

Press release from the Belgian Debt Agency
Please find attached the summary transaction of our new dollar public benchmark issue of this week.

On Thursday 28th of September, the Kingdom of Belgium issued within the framework of its EMTN-programme a new long 2-year USD 1.5 billion bond at a spread of mid-swap minus 4 basis points.
This new bond matures on 15 January 2020 and has a coupon of 1.625 %.
The issue has been swapped into euro in order to cancel any currency risk. The resulting euro interest rate is negative.