Euro zone government bond yields edged lower on Thursday as markets continued to digest an easing of inflationary pressures in the United States, with Germany's benchmark Bund yield retreating further from a two-week high.
China's weak lending numbers and increased business scrutiny, political tensions in Poland, and central bank decisions in Turkey, Mexico and Peru headlined emerging market moves on Thursday. The MSCI's index of emerging market stocks fell 0.4% as Chinese shares slipped with.
The Lebanese government will discuss a draft law allowing the central bank to use its mandatory reserve to continue to finance subsidised fuel imports after Governor Riad Salameh met President Michel Aoun on Thursday, a ministerial source said.