Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Investors left no doubt in anyone’s mind that they like bonds from the European Union as they ordered €142 billion of the first bonds in the pandemic recovery program, prompting the banks...

Greece joined the club of eurozone countries sporting negative bond yields as its five-year bond dipped below zero on Monday. It is hardly an exclusive club—Italy is now the only eurozone...

The European Central Bank seems to be taking its cues from the Federal Reserve, so the ECB governing council’s decision last week to keep its monetary policy accommodative is a good hint about...

Government bonds seem to have entered the summer doldrums as yields in the U.S., Europe, and Japan stay in a narrow range. A meeting this week of the European Central Bank governing council and next...

Bond investors have been fixated on the amount of the Federal Reserve’s asset purchases and the possible impact of the Fed reducing those purchases, removing a price support and perhaps causing...

U.S. Treasuries are relatively calm these days, but eurozone government bonds remain volatile. After the yield on the benchmark 10-year French bond climbed into positive territory, investors are...

German media started to speculate last week that the negative-interest phase in government bonds might be reaching an end as optimism about vaccines and an economic rebound have prompted investors to...

U.S. Treasuries appear to be treading water. That's keeping yields on the 10-year benchmark at about 1.60% despite the usual fluctuations.Investors have priced in robust economic news, but a bullish...

The sanctions imposed by the U.S. against Russia last week included barring American financial institutions from buying ruble-denominated debt at auction, and Russian sovereign bond yields accordingly...

Everyone agrees investors will be paying close attention to the March consumer price index release from the U.S. Labor Department today [Tuesday]. What analysts don’t agree on—because they...

Investors paused in driving US Treasury yields higher as repeated remarks by Federal Reserve policymakers pushed analysts to suggest bets on an early rate increase were overdone.Of course, early is a...

Investors are still dithering about what to do with US Treasuries as yields on the benchmark 10-year note bounce around 1.7%, dipping below that mark on Friday and topping it on Monday. Federal...

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, bailed out the U.S. Federal Reserve by pushing out his own central bank chief without putting a parachute on the country’s currency. The Turkish...

Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note remained above 1.6% on Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve policy meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, as more analysts look for the pivotal yield to hit...