The ECB note outlines the April 2025 financial market turbulence linked to U.S. tariff announcements, emphasizing significant cross‑asset correlation shifts, U.S. Treasury swap spread volatility, U.S. dollar depreciation, and liquidity concerns. These events raise systemic risks for Euro‑area investors relying on U.S. assets for diversification and safe‑haven functions. Euro‑area sovereign bond markets, though larger than before, still lag in liquidity and depth compared to U.S. Treasuries. Maintaining global financial stability depends on a robust U.S. Treasury market, but the EU must advance the Capital Markets Union and the savings and investments union to deepen euro‑area safe‑asset markets and reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar. Policy actions should accelerate EU capital market integration, securitisation, and cross‑border supervision to support liquidity, pricing, and monetary transmission, thereby strengthening the euro’s international role and mitigating systemic risks if U.S. assets lose stabilising capacity.
© European Central Bank, 2025.
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https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/financial-stability-publications/fsr/special/html/ecb.fsrart202511_01~fdf147a04a.en.html
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