bonds

By almost anyone’s measure, 330 years is an impressive lifespan. And with the first-ever government bond issued by the Bank of England in 1693, it’s unlikely the fixed...

The yield on the Australian 10-year government bond has reached 2.7%, its highest level in years, as central banks around the world move to stymie inflation. Last...

The S&P 500, NASDAQ and even Bitcoin started to recover some of their losses last week, that is, before yet another nuclear threat. But Russia is the least of...

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Minister for Superannuation Jane Hume released a joint statement earlier in the month that called on the $3.5 trillion super...

Russia is near to defaulting on up to US$150 billion of foreign currency debt writes Christopher Joye. If China consents to provide military aid to Russia it would...

“De-risking” is the buzzword du jour on Wall Street, where hedge funds and their ilk are cutting positions, selling stocks and covering shorts. So-called degrossing...

For the first time in over a decade, it looks like overnight cash rates are finally going to rise at some stage in 2022.This is the moment the bond doomsayers have...

Twenty-seven years ago the US Federal Reserve started lifting interest rates and instantly changed market sentiment and the direction of equity indices. The shift was...

In the AFR on Friday I wrote that blockbuster inflation data overnight has forced markets to converge with our expectation for 6-7 hikes from the US Federal Reserve in...

In 2022 we expect volatility to increase as a function of central bank liquidity draining from the system. In parallel, we expect inflation to remain persistent, as we...

Back in August and September 2021 we noted a very odd anomaly: for the first time, 5-year major bank senior unsecured bond spreads were trading in line with, or at...

The U.S. 10-year Treasury note is arguably the most important bellwether of global financial markets, especially when it comes to inflation. If the market expects...

In the AFR on Friday I wrote that, for the first time in a long time, we agree with Jeremy Grantham: equities likely need to correct quite significantly. Here are some...

Capital Group’s 2022 outlook cuts across global stocks and bonds in the US, China and Europe. It also explores dominant macro themes of interest rates and inflation,...

As we noted in part one of our recent primer on private and public credit markets, Public and private — perfecting the blend, the asset class of fixed income has...

Australian banks are not simply going to repay the $188 billion they borrowed from the RBA, under the Term Funding Facility, when repayment falls due in 2023 and 2024....

Last week NSW's investment and debt issuance agency, TCorp, announced that it had completed the first $1 billion of its proposed $11 billion of bond buy-backs using...

Commonwealth Bank's recent $4 billion bond is the first big issuance of 2022, and the largest of its type in Australian history. It dwarfs the previous record holder...

In the AFR I write that while the comparatively benign Omicron variant of the virus may provide a path out of the pandemic, it will only serve to amplify the...

One of my favourite bond issuers, CBA, has just announced a mandate for a new fixed-rate and floating-rate, benchmark 5-year senor bond issue in Aussie dollars. This...