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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      The Long ViewKatie Martin
      Lessons from the LDI debacle

      The UK’s gift to the world one year ago was to give a technicolour example of what to avoid

      Kwasi Kwarteng leaves 10 Downing Street with a red folder
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Currencies
      US dollar hits six-month high as markets accept new interest rate regime

      Stocks and bonds weaken after Federal Reserve signals rate cuts will take place only gradually

      US Twenty dollar bills
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      BuT wHO wILL bUy aLL ThE treASUrieS?!

      Sløk Time

    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      ESG investing
      ‘Sustainable’ debt pioneer ditches controversial ‘blue bond’ label

      The Nature Conservancy drops term that has been criticised for suggesting all money raised goes to marine conservation

      A whale jumps to the surface off the coast of Libreville in Gabon
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      US Treasury bonds
      Brokers > Dealers

      That shrinking feeling

    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Bank of Japan
      Yen tumbles after Bank of Japan maintains ultra-low interest rates

      August data shows consumer price growth exceeded 2% target for 17th straight month

      Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Brazil aims to raise $2bn from debut sustainable bond sale

      Green debt issuance will be a test of investor appetite for Lula’s environmental agenda

      A Brazililan federal agency officer taking part in an operation against deforestation in the Amazon in February 2023
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      Chinese investors rush into local government bonds

      Central government support for local financing vehicles helped lift debt sales in August to near-record levels

      A picture of tourists visiting Dong village
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      US interest rates
      Fed officials predict soft landing with hard policy

      Higher rates AND growth, for longer

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Mozambique
      Mozambique to seek $1.5bn in damages over ‘tuna bond’ scandal

      UK Supreme Court gives green light for lawsuit against Credit Suisse and Gulf-based shipbuilder Privinvest

      Traditional fishing boats sail with Maputo skyline in background
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Unhedged podcast15 min listen
      Basis trade freakout (low key)

      Why is everyone so worried about Treasury futures?

    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Global Economy
      Global debt pile hits record high of $307tn

      IIF warns countries will have to allocate more to interest expenses as debt as a share of GDP starts to rise again

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    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Hedge funds
      Hedge fund bets could spark turmoil in US Treasuries, BIS warns

      Short positions in 2-year Treasury futures reached record highs in August

      A trader in New York
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      LexItalian economy
      Italian bonds: Meloni’s moves may yet scare investors Premium content

      There are good economic reasons for nerves and the PM has shown herself willing to rattle markets

      Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Unhedged
      A whiff of bad inflation news Premium content

      And the Treasury basis trade scare story

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    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Markets InsightSteven Major
      The bull case for bonds

      There are three supportive arguments for the battered US Treasury market

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    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      US economy
      BlackRock and Amundi warn of rising US recession risk

      Investment chiefs point to cooling labour market and favour Treasuries

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    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      European governments go direct to citizens to fund borrowing

      One of the aims of retail bond sales is to press banks into raising savers’ interest rates

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Ten lessons from Zambia’s (incomplete) restructuring 

      Unfortunately, they might not apply elsewhere though

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Corporate bonds
      US companies opt for short-term debt in bet that yields have peaked

      Corporate bond maturities fall to lowest in a decade with some investors also preferring higher yields of shorter-term debt

      An employee fulfills orders at The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in Baltimore
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Greece debt crisis
      Greece credit rating raised to investment grade for first time since debt crisis

      DBRS Morningstar’s upgrade expected to lead to a series of similar upward revisions from junk status

      Greek flag flutters by the hand of a statue
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Sovereign debt
      The mysterious ‘global financier’ suing Sri Lanka

      Cunning new vulture investor or Poundland Elliott?

    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Gillian Tett
      Vulnerabilities in the Treasuries market aren’t going away

      Unease is rising — as are the extreme positions taken by hedge funds

      Illustration of a playing card that appears half as a joker, half as an economy grid, placed in the middle of two aces
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      South Korean business & finance
      South Korea launches samurai bond in Japan as bilateral relations improve

      Bank of Japan’s dovish monetary policy has made yen-denominated debt issuance attractive

      From left, US president Joe Biden, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Markets InsightEllen Carr
      Current corporate bond investing defies the usual playbook

      Since the inversion of the Treasury yield curve, investors have faced a dilemma

      A blurred shot of a woman walking past the United States Department of the Treasury building in Washington, United States
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