Investors will be scrutinizing the Federal Reserve’s comments at the close of its policy meeting on Wednesday for insight on whether the central bank has begun discussing tapering bond purchases and if policymakers are concerned about rising inflation. A possible hike to some key short-term rates is also in focus. Here are topics that investors…
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde gave investors the green light to load up on some of the highest-yielding government bonds in the region over the coming months. By signaling that there would be no let-up in the ECB’s pandemic debt-buying program on Thursday, she helped put aside fears that the central bank is preparing…
Inflation is on the rise, but bond markets are shrugging off the higher readings. Source: Yahoo Finance On Thursday morning, fresh data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed prices across the board increasing by 5.0% year-over-year, the fastest pace for the Consumer Price Index since August 2008. U.S. Treasuries barely flinched in the hours following the…
Japan’s government bond market saw trading volume dwindle to a nearly two-decade low in May, dashing central bank hopes that a clarification of its policy intentions in March would revitalise a market made dormant by its huge presence. Source: Reuters In a policy review in March to address the side-effects of prolonged monetary easing, the…
The US junk bond market has begun wavering on rising inflation worries, raising the risk that the powerful rally since the depths of the pandemic in the debt issued by the riskiest corporate borrowers may be coming to an end. Source: Financial Times The high-yield bond market has been a shelter for investors seeking to…
LONDON — Euro zone government bond markets were broadly steady on Tuesday, looking past a surge in inflation in the currency bloc to the likelihood that hefty monetary stimulus will remain in place for some time. Source: Financial Post Data showed inflation in the 19 countries sharing the euro accelerated to 2% in May from…
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…
German benchmark government yields were seen little changed
