China’s Bond-Yield Curve Gets Bent Out of Shape

 Investor sentiment is mixed after Beijing’s campaign this spring to make Chinese markets less risky, with yields on seven-year government bonds rising above yields of both five-year and 10-year bonds. Source: The Wall Street Journal China’s $1.7 trillion government-bond market is turning ever weirder. In a fresh sign of the nerves among investors caused by Beijing’s campaign this…

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The Bond Market Prefers Dictators to Democracies

Emerging market bonds from autocratic regimes have outperformed those in democracies over the past year Source: Bloomberg Dictatorships are on a hot streak in the bond market. In the past year, sovereign notes from emerging markets under autocratic rule have returned 15 percent on average, compared with just 8.6 percent for securities from developing countries considered…

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