(Bloomberg) — The relentless bear market in U.S. Treasury debt is on the cusp of a new phase, with yields across much of the maturity spectrum on course to crack above their 2018 highs and several major potential catalysts to help such a move. Center stage will be April consumer price inflation on Wednesday, forecast […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The U.S. Treasury trimmed its quarterly sale of longer-term debt for a third straight time, and unexpectedly advised that it may make further reductions, citing “strong” federal tax revenues. Dealers had widely expected the reduction to next week’s sale of notes and bonds, but viewed it as likely to be the last cutback […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Swaps traders priced in a full two percentage points of additional Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes for 2022 as Treasury yields surged anew on Friday, led by the short end of the curve. The moves came amid developments in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and following more hawkish policy predictions by one of Wall Street’s […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Global bond markets have suffered unprecedented losses since peaking last year, as central banks including the Federal Reserve look to tighten policy to combat surging inflation. The Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index, a benchmark for government and corporate debt total returns, has fallen 11% from a high in January 2021. That’s the biggest decline […]
Read More(Bloomberg) –Treasuries slumped, sending the two-, five- and 10-year yields to the highest levels since May 2019, as policy makers in the U.S. and Europe cranked up expectations for higher borrowing costs in the face of mounting inflationary pressures. The two-year rate — more sensitive to Fed policy changes than longer-dated ones — rose 10 […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Treasuries fell Monday to extend this month’s rout in global developed-market bonds as investors anticipate the inflationary impacts of the war in Ukraine will spur aggressive monetary tightening. Five-year yields rose six basis points to surpass 2% for the first time since May 2019, while 10-year yields climbed four basis points to 2.04%. […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — To many on Wall Street, the painful selloff that’s been racing through the Treasury market this month is only the opening act. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s hawkish tone added fuel to the rout after he said the bank is poised to start raising interest rates in March, sending two-year Treasury […]
Read MoreSigns of trouble are cropping up in the world’s largest, most liquid government-securities market, B. of A. rates strategists say. Large moves on very low volumes of Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, breakevens, a gauge of U.S. inflation expectations, are among the indications that the rates market is unsettled, the strategists say. “Collapsed” depth in […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve won’t be the only one announcing a taper on Wednesday. The Treasury Department, for the first time in more than five years, will likely unveil a scaling down of its behemoth quarterly sale of longer-term securities. In time, the Treasury’s reduction in issuance of coupon-bearing debt — notes and bonds […]
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