Inflation prompts investors to ditch Treasuries
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
A court struggle in China is casting a shadow over the company’s hopes for an Arm IPO after its failed $66bn sale to Nvidia, the 10-year Treasury yield on Thursday climbed to 2 per cent for the first time since August 2019, as investors ditched government debt on the latest evidence of stubbornly high inflation, and European scientists have made a big breakthrough in the decades-long effort to generate energy from nuclear fusion.
Mentioned in this podcast:
SoftBank’s plans for Arm IPO hit by legal battle over renegade China unit
US inflation surges to 7.5% in fastest annual rise for 40 years
European scientists in ‘landmark’ nuclear fusion breakthrough
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