The Bond Market Under Pressure
For years, governments believed they could spend first and worry about financing later. The bond market is beginning to disagree. Global sovereign issuance has reached...
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The Bond Market Is Beginning to Revolt
For years, investors were told that inflation was temporary, that central banks remained in control and that sovereign debt markets would continue functioning as the...
Europe’s Strategic Folly Comes Due
Europe is once again discovering that moral postures are not an energy policy. For years, the continent congratulated itself on its virtue, mistaking dependency for...
The Illusion of Control: Bond Markets in the Age of War
There are moments when markets reveal more than they intend. Not through clarity, but through panic. Three weeks into the war with Iran, global bond...
Europe’s Bond Mirage
The calm lasted precisely one day. European bond markets briefly stabilised before resuming their descent, as investors digested a reality that central bankers would rather...
MFS: Collateral Is Not Character
As Market Financial Solutions slid into distress in London, the setting felt contemporary, but the script was eerily familiar. A non-bank lender stepping into the...
The Great “Devaluation Trade”: When Safe Havens Aren’t So Safe, and Risk Isn’t So Risky
Beneath the daily whiplash of financial markets, a deeper shift may be underway. Investors are quietly rethinking what safety really means — and how to...
Trump Threatens Tariffs Over ‘Unfair’ Digital Taxes
US President Donald Trump has once again reached for his favourite blunt instrument: tariffs. This time, the United States is threatening new levies and export...
Europe’s Eternal Innocence: Still Clutching at American Coattails
Donald Trump has ordered an immediate freeze on all military aid to Ukraine, turning up the pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky just days after their disastrous...