Bonds Analysis & Comment

During today’s monetary policy meeting, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) confirmed it will maintain its short-term policy interest rate at -0.10% 'for an extended period of time', unchanged since 29....

Europe It’s been a broadly negative day for markets in Europe today, as trade tensions reassert themselves after the EU announced it was preparing countermeasures to further US tariffs and it...

The yield spread between 10yr BTPs and Bunds widened 114bp in May Populist and anti-EU politics were the catalyst for this repricing of risk Spain, Portugal and Greece all saw yields increase as Bund...

European political uncertainty spiked volatility in sovereign bond markets and the euro Hawkish emerging market monetary policy attempts to alleviate local FX havoc and inflationary concerns Chances...

Summary Italy’s stock and bond rebound stuttered on Tuesday after the first parliamentary speech by new Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte – a clear sign investors continue to perceive the...

Summary The big question for European and U.S. stock markets on Thursday is when they may reach their pain threshold. This week has seen recharged inflation expectations drag Treasury yields higher,...

Cough Please! Then talk…about how China’s 10 year bond yields are down, RRR is also down, plus there’s no further sanctions according to Russian Embassy in Washington… Find...

A safe place to hide – inflation and the bond markets US bond yields have risen from historic lows, they should rise further, they may not The Federal Reserve is beginning to reduce its balance...

An acceleration in the selloff of global bond markets appears to be starting to let some of the air out of the recent rally in global equity markets, as US markets suffered their worst one day fall...

There’s been a lot of discussion in the last few days about the likelihood of the start of a bond bear market where prices slide back sharply and push yields higher. Looking past the headlines...

US markets had their first uniformly negative session of the year so far yesterday, all of the main benchmarks finishing the day lower on the day, on reports that China was reviewing its policy of...

Predicting the future is a mug’s game, and in financial markets we simply cannot know tomorrow’s prices. All we can do is make assessments of the factors that can be expected to influence...

Chinese bond yields have reached their highest since October 2014 Chinese stocks have corrected despite the US market making new highs The PBoC has introduced targeted lending to SMEs and...

Bull market breather or beginning of the end? Stock markets have generally taken a breather during November High yield and corporate bond yields have risen, but from record lows Since April, the...