The Great Emerging Market Bond Rush
Yield-hungry investors are once again fuelling a borrowing bonanza across developing nations, prompting a record surge in hard currency bond issuance, all in a mad...
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Bond Vigilantes Make Their Return – and This Time, They’re Staring Down Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Fantasy
On the world’s largest bond market, investors are quietly — and not so quietly — revolting against President Donald Trump’s grand tax-cut plan. In what...
The Trump reality: High Yields, Higher Risks
The great “Sell America” frenzy that gripped markets this month has left what might well be a lasting dent in investors’ appetite for long-term U.S....
Trump’s Trade War and the Dollar, a moment of history?
In a plot twist worthy of a financial soap opera, the US dollar—once the shining beacon of global stability—is starting to look suspiciously like another...
U.S. Treasuries: From Safe Haven to Market Hazard?
The great Treasury selloff is gaining steam—not in a good way. For the third day running, long U.S. government bonds have come under heavy fire,...
From Growth Euphoria to Recession Fears in Record Time
Only weeks ago, market analysts debated whether the U.S. economy would accelerate under Trump’s tax-slashing, protectionist agenda. Now, suddenly, the dreaded R-word (recession, not ‘Republican...
Treasury Market Under Pressure as Rising Interest Rates Signal More Pain Ahead
Already stuck in one of its worst slumps of the year, the U.S. Treasury market seems to be sending yet another distress signal as yields...
Investors are overestimating appetite for FED to cut interest rates
The following weeks promise to be volatile. Bond prices have surged on expectations that the Federal Reserve will soon begin slashing interest rates to stave...
The Great Maturity Wall: A Crumbling Barrier or Just a Hurdle?
The much-feared maturity wall is proving to be less of a towering obstacle and more of a manageable hurdle. The global high-yield bond market has...