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    • Saturday, 25 November, 2023
      The Long ViewKatie Martin
      Markets in 2024: Investors bet on déjà vu all over again

      The consensus forecast is a mild US recession with bonds becoming more attractive

      Back to the future: the key message this year is the same, but suggestions remain that, not for the first time, the market has got ahead of itself.
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Adventurous InvestorDavid Stevenson
      Go on the defensive: ETFs for a volatile market

      Investors naturally gravitate towards more defensive ideas and strategies in times of heightened market concern

    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Q&AGilts
      Inflation-proof gilts: is it time to buy ‘linkers’?

      Expectation for average UK inflation over the next five years is 3.8 per cent

    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Financial & markets regulation
      Treasury clearing 101

      Everything you never wanted to know about central clearing in the world’s benchmark market

    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Autumn Statement
      Gilt yields rise as UK plans to borrow more than expected

      Treasury reduces issuance programme by less than market forecasts

      The Treasury building
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      EU financial regulation
      European Commission fines Rabobank €26.6mn over bond trading cartel

      Deutsche Bank avoids penalty of almost €156mn after revealing existence of collusion

      The Deutsche Bank headquarters
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Martin Wolf
      The looming threat of fiscal crises

      Public debt in high-income countries has reached elevated levels

      Illustration of a globe in a clamp
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      News in-depthGilts
      The UK issues more inflation-linked debt than anyone else. Has it worked?

      Interest payments on ‘linkers’ to hit £92bn over the next 5 years

      A group of local women hold up placards to protest about rising food prices outside a supermarket in Tottenham, north London, in 1971
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Americas economy
      Milei’s victory in Argentina cheered by investors

      President-elect faces huge economic challenges without congressional majority

      Javier Milei addresses supporters
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Zambia
      Zambia’s debt restructuring derailed after official creditors reject deal

      Bondholders ‘very disappointed and extremely concerned’ over collapse in talks

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    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Italian economy
      Italian bonds rally after Moody’s credit rating reprieve

      Ten-year borrowing cost falls to 2-month low after Rome avoids downgrade to ‘junk’ status

      A delicatessen truck at a street market in Milan
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Zambia’s bondholders are ‘very disappointed’ and ‘deeply concerned’

      CoT strikes back

    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Israel
      Israel raises $6bn in borrowing bonanza to fund war against Hamas

      Yield on debt is sharply higher than before the conflict began

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    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      US Treasury bonds
      Leave Treasury basis trade hedge funds alone!

      The Managed Fund Association bravely stands up for its members

    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Unhedged
      Olivier Blanchard on debt explosions Premium content

      What to do when r - g = 0

      Olivier Blanchard
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Markets InsightMatt King
      The counterintuitive truth about deficits for bond investors

      Most of the time, higher government debt levels have been associated with lower yields, not higher

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    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      US Treasury bonds
      Officials seek more transparency for US Treasury market

      Regulators say they are particularly keen to get more data from less liquid sections of the $26tn market

      Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      LexCamilla Palladino
      The Lex Newsletter: threat of junk inspires no funk for Italy Premium content

      Despite country’s huge debt load, politicians, central banks and rating agencies prevent it tumbling into the abyss

      Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      News in-depthUS Treasury bonds
      Cyber attack shines light on role of China’s largest lender in US Treasury market

      Disruption caused by hack of ICBC shows how bank has become an important link in $26tn market

      Montage featuring ICBC’s logo, US dollar and the US Treasury building
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      US inflation
      US stocks and bonds jump after inflation falls to 3.2%

      Annual rise in consumer price index slows more than economists had forecast

      A customer shops at an Amazon Fresh grocery store in Schaumburg, Illinois
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Ransomware
      Wall Street and Beijing fight fallout of ransomware attack on China’s biggest bank

      New York arm of ICBC proposed using a USB stick to transmit data after its systems were compromised

      A montage of the logo for ICBC and the front of the US Treasury building
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      Why consumers feel so glum Premium content

      And the costs of monetising the debt

    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      US economy
      Moody’s lowers outlook on US debt to ‘negative’

      Rating agency says move reflects drastic rise in Treasury yields and ‘political divisions’

      The Treasury building in Washington
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Central banks
      Market skittishness complicates central banks’ interest rate plans

      Falling government bond yields loosen the tight financial conditions policymakers want to create

      Christine Lagarde
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Zambia
      Zambia debt deal hits fresh hurdle over official sector concerns

      IMF and foreign governments express reservations over deal agreed with private creditors last month

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