Bonds Analysis & Opinion

There has been some to-do among investors about the US 10-year breakeven rate—a market measure of inflation expectations—breaking above 2% and staying there for a few days. It has been...

Bond investors kept their eye on the ball as the prospect of a Democratic president and Democratic control of Congress makes further stimulus and other government spending a near-certainty.Markets...

Government bond investors are sensitive to political developments but this week has provided a surfeit of political convulsion rarely before seen. Nonetheless, markets took it in stride.The surprising...

The prospect of a substantial sale of EU bonds over the next few years is enlivening the European government bond market after the debut of SURE bonds in October was massively oversubscribed with...

After months of brinksmanship and the posturing that goes with it, Britain and the European Union seem to be getting serious about concluding a last-minute post-Brexit trade deal. Negotiators have...

The European Central Bank moves to center stage this week, after hinting that it will top up its pandemic emergency purchase program from the current €1.35 trillion. The resurgence of COVID-19 in...

European governments will be issuing massive amounts of green bonds in the coming months as investors—including central banks—clamor for opportunities for sustainable investing.The EU...

If there was any question about how highly strung investors are over COVID-19, the announcement by Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) on Monday that preliminary trials showed their...

Treasury investors have been bombarded with an array of concerning news over the past few days, but yields surged on Monday as optimism grew with reports that President Donald Trump would leave the...

Investors are understandably jumpy amid the current uncertainty about virtually everything. So a short paragraph in the minutes from the Bank of England’s policy meeting last week blindsided...

The European Central Banks (ECB) is trying its best to stimulate the eurozone economy with a variety of asset purchase programs, but it has a much harder job than the US Federal Reserve in this...

There was a time, just after the first oil crisis in the 1970s, that the collection of emirates and kingdoms along the Persian Gulf coast were so flush with cash that the biggest challenge they faced...

It’s getting harder to square record low yields on US Treasuries with record high stock prices in the broader equity indices. A flight into Treasuries amid COVID-19 uncertainty and a boomingly...

The coronavirus pandemic, its impact on the economy, and efforts to combat both challenges continue to roil the market for US Treasuries, with sentiment shifting bullish or bearish depending on the...