Belgian Prime News N° 83PDF

In this context of low interest rates, the average maturity for the Belgian federal government debt has gone up from 6 years in 2010 to close to 10 years in 2019.. In practice,

In its capacity as the Belgian macroprudential authority, the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) announced on 28 June 2019 that it was activating the countercyclical capital buffer

The Belgian labour market has continued to perform very well throughout the first nine months of 2018, with a harmonised unemployment rate of 5.8 % in the third quarter according

In the decade that followed the failure of Lehman Brothers, the Belgian insurance sector had to deal with periods of major stress in global financial markets but also with an

and Wauters (2018), “Are inflation and economic activity out of sync in the euro area ?”, National Bank of Belgium, Economic review, June.. (2) See also Belgian Prime News

However, long-term sovereign bond yields in the euro area and the US increased over the first quarter of 2018, reflecting improving market expectations of economic growth

Asian investors showed great interest in the deal, taking up 71.98 % of the issue, as well as non-euro investors taking 16.82 %. Taking into account the € 2.7 million worth of

In particular, the analysis conducted by the FPS Economy (Price Observatory and Directorate General Statistics – Statistics Belgium), the National Bank of Belgium and the