Analysis: Interest Rates

Dollar gains after weeks of losses as investors focus on U.S. aid package

The dollar rose on Monday, including against major currencies such as the euro and Swiss franc, as investors focused on the fiscal stimulus plan in the United States and U.S.-China tensions ahead of...

Picking pennies: Dollar slump lifts U.S. bond returns for foreigners

A 10% decline in the value of the U.S. dollar since March has boosted returns for foreign investors in the world's largest government bond market at a time when U.S. Treasury yields are near record...

Morgan Stanley suspended from some French treasury bond deals - AFT

The French state treasury has suspended Morgan Stanley from certain French treasury bond deals for three months, citing problems it had with the U.S. investment bank's execution of some past deals.

Go your own way: U.S. and UK bonds part ways from Germany and Japan

Sovereign borrowing costs have taken another lurch lower as more COVID-19 outbreaks threaten economic recovery, yet five months after the pandemic panic first hit, a divergence is opening up within...

U.S. long bond demand raises prospect of whole curve yielding below 1%

A decline in U.S. Treasury yields over recent weeks has investors eyeing the approach of an unusual phenomenon - the entire U.S. yield curve sinking below 1%. ...

Argentina creditors seek global support for bond clause changes

A group of Argentina's creditors has contacted the Institute of International Finance and other global bodies for support to amend legal clauses in its sovereign bond restructuring, a spokesman for...

Global funds favour bonds over stocks on surging coronavirus infections - Reuters poll

Global funds recommended cutting equity holdings in July to the lowest in four years and suggested keeping bond allocations unchanged from June, amid worries the coronavirus pandemic is hobbling a...

A trading tool that's transforming the $10 trillion-plus corporate bond market

Expectations of a borrowing deluge from corporates globally are turning bond market attention to a little-known tool that's already helping smooth trading of illiquid debt the way exchange-traded...

Inflation-protected U.S. bonds have rallied but not everyone buys the story

A recent rush into inflation-protected U.S. Treasury bonds has sent yields to near historic lows, but not all investors are buying into the story of higher inflation ahead.

Game changer? How the recovery fund will shake up EU bond markets

The European Union is about to vault into the ranks of the world's biggest supranational issuers after it gave the green light to a recovery fund financed via joint debt, a move that carries the...

UBS to pay over $10 million to resolve SEC charges on municipal bond offerings

A unit of UBS has agreed to pay more than $10 million to resolve charges it circumvented the priority given to retail investors in certain municipal bond offerings, the U.S. Securities and Exchange...

Bond investors wait for more headlines on EU recovery fund

By Yoruk Bahceli Euro zone bond yields held their ground on Thursday with investors' main focus expected to be any new developments on the European Union's recovery fund, which aims to...

U.S. office, apartment vacancy rates rise marginally in second quarter: Reis

U.S. office and apartment vacancy rates rose marginally in the second quarter from a year earlier, as property owners were yet to feel the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to real...

Longer, greener, broader: strategies for a world awash in new bonds

By Dhara Ranasinghe Century bonds and green bonds, the first 20-year U.S. Treasury issue in decades, securities for mom-and-pop investors and with growth-linked payouts -- a borrowing...

Investors in Russian bonds relaxed about extended Putin rule

By Andrey Ostroukh and Karin Strohecker The prospect of President Vladimir Putin staying in the Kremlin until 2036 does not seem to be deterring buyers of Russia's high-yielding...

Yield curve control a double-edged sword for Bank of Japan as low rates strain banks

By Leika Kihara The Bank of Japan's push to keep borrowing costs low to cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus is coming at the expense of the country's lenders, which are...

Deutsche Telekom : SoftBank to repurchase $1.9 billion of corporate bonds

By Sam Nussey Japan's SoftBank Group Corp said on Monday it will repurchase up to 200 billion yen of its domestic unsecured corporate bonds from June 30 to July 17, part of its plan to...

Pandemic propels old-school bond traders towards an electronic future

By Dhara Ranasinghe and Saikat Chatterjee The mammoth bond market has long been the old-school bastion of the financial world, but the COVID-19 pandemic has cast a light on its future -...

Macy's raises $4.5 billion to shore up funds as stores reopen, shares surge

Macy's Inc said on Monday it raised a total of $4.5 billion, including $3.15 billion in new borrowings against its real estate assets, as the department store chain tries to navigate through the...