LONDON — A lessening of inflation fears saw euro zone government bond yields edge down for the third day in a row on Tuesday, with Italy’s 10-year yield down 5 basis points, as the market continued to calm down from last week’s sell-off. Source: Financial Post Last week, Germany’s 10-year Bund yield rose to two-year…
A corner of Europe’s credit market is luring investors as the threat of rising government yields fuels demand for assets that can protect bond holdings from the risk of interest-rate hikes. Source: Bloomberg Floating-rate notes, bonds with variable coupons as opposed to the fixed income attached to most debt, have seen a rise in issuance…
OMS/EMS providers, electronic venues and data aggregators are rapidly merging their offerings so fixed income trading desk clients can realize benefits from automated trading without needing to assemble and maintain individual systems internally, writes Vuk Magdelinic, founder and CEO of Overbond. And with recent consolidation in the space, Mr. Magdelinic asks whether this transformation is only…
Euro zone bond yields fell on Monday, pulling back from multi-month highs as markets took time out from a recent sharp selloff. Source: Reuters A recovering economy that could encourage the European Central Bank to slow the pace of its emergency bond purchases, a pick up in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout that boosts the growth…
ETF traders are increasingly wary of the corporate bond market as inflation anxiety boils over. Source: Bloomberg Short interest in the $41 billion iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond exchange-traded fund (ticker LQD) is now 21.5% of shares outstanding, the highest on record, according to data from IHS Markit Ltd. The onslaught of bearish sentiment comes…
Euro zone bond yields rose on Monday as investors returned their focus to a brighter economic outlook and its implications for central bank policy following large swings following Friday’s U.S. non-farm payrolls data. Source: Reuters Rising crude oil prices after a major cyberattack forced the shutdown of critical fuel supply pipelines in the United States…
The UK authorities are pushing on in earnest with reforms to the UK’s financial regulatory framework with one of the latest missives involving some ‘quick fixes’ to the markets in financial instruments directive (MiFID) II as proposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Source: Global Risk Regulator On April 28, the FCA launched a consultation…
A pause in a broad selloff in U.S. treasuries and other global bonds last month has given foreign investors time to rethink their Asian holdings and shift money to safer markets such as China, away from riskier countries like Indonesia and India. Source: Reuters China, India and Indonesia were among the largest recipients of yield-seeking…
Euro area government bonds have notched up their worst monthly performance against U.S. Treasuries in a year and investors are bracing for a bigger sell-off over coming months as the pace of vaccination finally picks up across the bloc. source: Reuters Ten-year U.S. Treasuries’ yield premium over equivalent German bonds, a gauge often used to…
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, ENGLAND, February 27, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/
