Gold rallies in search of safe haven; “bull markets are the authors of bear markets.” Source: Forbes As the first-half of 2019 draws to a close, investors have much to cheer about. A lot of money has been made across many asset classes. If you’re considering tweaking your strategy for the second-half of the year, I have four words for…
Federal Reserve’s dovish stance and US – China trade talks have increased demand for Emerging Market Local Government Debt Source: Bloomberg If investors wanted evidence that demand for local-currency bonds isn’t fleeting, here it is: The biggest exchange-traded fund tracking local debt in emerging markets has seen 17 weeks of inflows. The $9.7 billion iShares…
Over the past two years, we have witnessed profound changes in the fixed income marketplace with counterparties increasingly adopting quantitative investing and liquidity risk monitoring techniques. These include adoption of new methods of analysis such as AI analytics like COBI-Matching algorithm. Source: Overbond Fixed Income Artificial Intelligence The financial services market is embracing digital processes…
Tightening bias from regional central banks lead to substantial outflow in Asian bond markets Source: The Star Foreign flows into emerging Asian bonds turned negative for the first time in four months in January, data from Malaysia and others showed, suggesting that a shift away from a tightening bias for regional central banks is dimming…
As U.S. stocks slumped, big wagers on higher yield and flatter curve were challenged leading to futures and options positions being abandoned. Source: Bloomberg Volatility in the U.S. Treasury market appears to have forced traders out of what just a week ago appeared to be surefire wagers on higher yields and a flatter curve. Flight-to-quality…
The Royal Bank of Canada will be the first Canadian financial institution to sell bail-in eligible securities. The bail-in eligible securities can be converted into equity should a bank get into trouble and will eventually replace deposit notes for Canadian banks. Source: Bloomberg Royal Bank of Canada is getting ready to sell the country’s first…
As interest rates have continued to climb today’s bearish market, the non-traditional bond funds have gained 0.6% this year. Source: Bloomberg Created after the financial crisis to prosper on rising interest rates, the funds instead have bumped along for years amid persistently low borrowing costs. But as rates have climbed in today’s bearish market, go-anywhere bond…
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note surged to 2.727 percent on Monday, its highest since April 2014, as investors bet on an accelerating economy and inflation. Source: CNBC A falling dollar this month has also helped drive yields higher, as traders worry it may reduce the appetite for Treasurys, while also boosting inflation. The 10-year yield…
Pension funds are in bonds for the long haul, and aren’t swayed by weekly or monthly price fluctuations. Source: The Globe and Mail The death of the bond market bull run has been greatly exaggerated. The life-savers are pension funds, whose demand for long-term fixed income assets could reach record levels this year – and, counterintuitively,…
Despite the US Federal Reserve raising rates five times this year, bond prices have stayed high which has kept the long-term yields low. Source: Financial Times The head of a leading western central bank predicted that his job would soon be akin to flying a plane. The goal was to deliver such a smooth glide path…
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