(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) — Six weeks into 2022 and it’s shaping up to be a grim year for fixed-income investors facing rising interest rates around the world. With the Federal Reserve preparing to hike rates next month after a bigger-than-expected jump in U.S. consumer prices, Treasuries have endured their worst start to a year in more than […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The Treasury yield curve flattened to the lowest level in over a year on Monday as the prospect of a super-sized Federal Reserve rate increase in March gained traction, weighing disproportionately on shorter-dated tenors. Two-year U.S. yields climbed 3 basis points to about 1.2% after Raphael Bostic, the president of the Fed’s Atlanta […]
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 More(Bloomberg) — Treasury yields are quickly moving higher as investor expectations grow that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in March and follow up with further moves throughout the year. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield has risen almost 30 basis points since the end of 2021 as market participants begin to price rate hikes […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Bond buyers face a “new conundrum” where Treasury yields will stay low even as the Federal Reserve hikes rates, despite the surge in the first week of the year, according to Goldman Sachs. The investment bank expects the bond market to be reluctant to lift the terminal rate during the coming tightening cycle. […]
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