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    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Eurozone inflation
      Eurozone inflation hits 2-year low as US price pressures ease

      Data helps steady bond markets and signals prospect of end to interest rate rises on both sides of Atlantic

      People shop for cheap clothes in Germany
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Markets InsightCésar Pérez Ruiz
      From black to red zero in Germany? Don’t bank on it

      Berlin has tightened deficit discipline as ‘bond vigilantes’ return

      A container ship in Frankfurt harbour, Germany, near the European Central Bank
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      European bond market hit by Italy’s plans for higher borrowing

      Yields reach highest level in a decade as investors’ deficits worries add fuel to sell-off

      Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      US Treasury bonds
      Fed’s ‘higher for longer’ message hits US stocks and bonds

      Treasuries and Wall Street shares on course for worst month of 2023

      Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 stock index has fallen more than 5 per cent in September
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Markets InsightMoritz Kraemer
      How to rally support for Ukraine on bond markets

      Credit enhancements for debt issued by Kyiv would allow funds to be raised more quickly and on a larger scale

      A woman with kids walks next to a residential house damaged by a Russian military strike
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      Who’s afraid of the Treasury basis trade?

      Almost everyone except Goldman Sachs, it seems

    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      South Korean business & finance
      South Korea optimistic of inclusion in key world bond index

      Becoming a constituent of FTSE Russell WGBI could provide boost of up to $67bn in foreign capital inflows

    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      The Big Read
      The debt-fuelled bet on US Treasuries that’s scaring regulators

      Policymakers are concerned about the huge leverage that hedge funds are employing as part of the so-called basis trade

      Montage image illustrating US government bonds and the US Federal Reserve HQ
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      How Sri Lanka can uncover its mysterious legal adversary

      Bond doc adventures

    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      Hedge funds rush to unwind bets against gilts

      Short positions in UK government debt this week fell to their lowest level since at least 2006

    • 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
      Sovereign bonds
      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

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    • 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
      Sovereign bonds
      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

      Offshore wind turbines
    • 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

      A businessman walking on Wall Street
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