Ian Guider Market Talk

Hands up who wants to buy a 100-year Irish bond? Global investors do

NTMA headquarters at Treasury Building in DublinPic: Feargal Ward
Marc Bolland, outgoing chief executive of Marks & Spencer

✽ It is hard at the moment to predict events just a couple of months out, so there was a bit of surprise last week at the National Treasury Management Agency’s announcement of the sale of Ireland’s first 100-year bond, as well as plenty of curiosity. It was ...