Analysis: Interest Rates

Global investors eye UK gilts selloff with caution

The UK government bond market has sent investors an unwelcome reminder of the kind of volatility that can materialise when enough concern builds over government finances, as yields soared to their...

UK minister: financial markets functioning in an orderly way

British treasury minister Darren Jones said financial markets continued to function in an orderly way and it was normal for the price of gilts to vary, when asked about a jump in government borrowing...

Interest rates: A thorn in the side of equity markets

In the absence of any major announcements and in a market characterized by low volumes, bond yields are nonetheless showing their irritation at the acceleration in spending, the risks of a return to...

Global equity fund inflows drop on higher US bond yields

Demand for global equity funds shrank in the week through Jan. 1, as higher U.S. Treasury yields led to caution and investors took profits during the year-end trading lull. Data from...

China will sharply increase funding from treasury bonds to spur growth in 2025

China will sharply increase funding from ultra-long treasury bonds in 2025 to spur business investment and consumer-boosting initiatives, a state planner official said on Friday, as Beijing ramps up...

China to increase budget deficit, ramp up govt bond issuance to support growth

China will raise its budget deficit ratio, intensify fiscal spending and accelerate expenditure in 2025, the finance ministry said on Tuesday. The government will arrange for a larger...

TCW Sticks to Bond wager Despite Losses

TCW Group's Bryan Whalen is sticking to a call that most others on Wall Street abandoned after piling up losses. The Federal Reserve's elevated interest rates, he insists, are bound to crack the...

Inflation a Bit Stuck, Bonds at Reasonable Level: Dudley

William Dudley, a Bloomberg Opinion contributor and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, discusses the outlook for Fed policy and the fixed income market on Bloomberg Open...

Interest rates: Christine stays the course

As widely anticipated by the financial community, the European Central Bank cut its main key rates for the third time in a row. It has to be said that the European economy is in dire need of a...

BondBloxx COO on Private Credit CLO ETF (PCMM)

BondBloxx COO and Co-Founder Joanna Gallegos discusses the BondBloxx Private Credit CLO ETF which focuses on CLOs which hold loans of middle market companies. She speaks with Scarlet Fu, Katie...

Rates: Easing is the order of the day

Goldilocks?-style macroeconomic statistics continue to please investors, supporting the rise in equity markets on the one hand, and the easing of interest rates on the other. For the time being, fears...

French stock, bond investors brave government collapse

LONDON -French stocks and bonds steadied on Thursday, after a widely expected no-confidence vote toppled the government and plunged the euro zone's second-biggest economy further into political...

Duration Risk 'Not Priced Properly' Into Bonds: Graham Capital's Tropin

Kenneth Tropin, chairman and founder at Graham Capital Management, discusses expected market reactions to President-elect Donald Trump's economic policies and how fiscal concerns can impact the...

Bond Vigilantes Are Watching Many Countries: Seema Shah

Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management, sees expectations for the European Central Bank to be cutting rates far more aggressively than the US as a reason to be overweight...

Rates: Time to shake things up

Between the two, my heart sways. Clearly, this could be the current mantra of investors, who have never been so undecided about the next steps in US monetary policy. It has to be said that Jerome...

Bond futures bounce on Bessent pick for US Treasury

Bonds rallied, U.S. stock futures rose and the dollar eased in early trade on Monday as investors cheered the appointment of fund manager Scott Bessent as the next U.S. Treasury secretary, figuring he...

Bond Market in Wait and See Mode: Sonal Desai

Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Chief Investment Officer Sonal Desai gives her outlook of the US bond market and says it's 50/50 for the Fed to cut rates in December. She speaks with Sonali Basak...

Non-recessionary rate-cutting cycle should support credit, Pinebridge says

Asset manager PineBridge Investments said in a report that it is seeing the start of a rare non-recessionary interest rate-cutting cycle that should support performance of fixed income assets like...

Rates: Ambient skepticism

And that's three. After the White House, the Republicans won the House of Representatives and the Senate, giving the future 47th President of the United States the means to develop his policies....