Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration is seeking to assuage persistent market reservations about her management of fiscal policy by providing foreign investors with more information in English.
Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor Christopher Kent reaffirmed the monetary authority’s view that the A$8.5 billion ($5.9 billion) accounting loss recorded for last fiscal year does not hurt its operations.
US Treasuries are showing tentative signs of reclaiming their traditional role as a haven — threatening to wrong-foot investors who are heavily positioned for this year’s bond slump to deepen.
Treasury-bill yields have risen sharply as a wave of new issuance tests investor demand, posing a threat to the stability of overnight funding markets.
A growing list of mortgage lenders is holding off on offerings of bonds backed by home and commercial-property loans as investors demand more compensation to take on the risk amid growing turbulence in rates markets.
Long-term Treasuries fell after some Wall Street predictions fell flat that US government officials would directly nod at the possibility of reducing its sales of those securities.
Bank of America Corp. has kicked off the sale of investment-grade bonds, becoming the third major Wall Street firm to tap a turbulent market this week after reporting third-quarter results.
Priya Misra, Core Plus Bond ETF portfolio manager at JPMorgan Asset Management, says moves in the bond market are “overdone,” pricing in three interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. Misra also says fixed income is a “really attractive asset class” to hedge the AI trade. (Source: Bloomberg)
The crisis roiling Turkey’s investment industry may be spilling into its fast-growing corporate bond market, potentially crimping smaller companies’ access to financing.
Angola is considering selling bonds in China or tapping Islamic debt markets in the Middle East as the oil-producing nation seeks to diversify its sources of financing, according to a senior finance official.
Just about everyone is worried about what is going on in France right now: the country’s public finances are in sorry shape and there are fears that the French bond selloff, and the country’s growing debt crisis, might spillover into the rest of Europe. On top of that, the 2027 elections have invest
Some of the world’s biggest funds are warming to US Treasuries as yields climb to multi-decade highs. Jupiter Asset Management’s Harry Richards isn’t one of them.
The International Monetary Fund is “quite confident” that Argentina’s authorities are in a position to meet next year’s debt obligations, said Luis Cubeddu, deputy director of the Western Hemisphere department.
Olli Rehn, Finnish Central Bank Governor and ECB Governing Council member, discusses his outlook for the eurozone. He speaks on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok. (Source: Bloomberg)
European Central Bank Governing Council member Olli Rehn said policymakers will have additional information at the final rate decision of the year, while suggesting the current policy approach is working.
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said the current market turbulence is making political parties across the spectrum see the need for fiscal prudence, voicing optimism that his country’s parliament will back his budget.
Demand at an Australian three-year bond auction surged to the highest since 2018 as traders bet the nation’s central bank is nearing the end if its interest-rate hike cycle.
The situation in euro-area bond markets is contained and far from requiring intervention from the bloc’s rescue fund, according to European Stability Mechanism Managing Director Pierre Gramegna.