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    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
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    And China’s monetary policy stance

    Montage of US flag and a stock trader
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Sovereign debt
    BIS warns politicians to rein in spending or risk market turbulence

    Chief economist Claudio Borio says governments will be ‘too late’ if they wait for investors to panic

    BIS headquarters
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    US Treasury bonds
    Pimco cuts exposure to long-dated US debt as deficits swell

    Decisions by the world’s biggest active bond fund manager have potential to trigger valuation changes across markets

    Pimco headquarters in Newport Beach, California
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Active Management
    Fixed income becomes even harder to navigate

    Market participants are realising that the flat, low, predictable rates over the past 15 years were an anomaly

  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Pimco
    Trade war fallout could trigger deep Eurozone rate cuts, Pimco warns

    Bond giant says euro is vulnerable to further declines amid market ‘optimism’ over impact of Trump presidency

    Euro sculpture in Frankfurt
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Ivory Coast turns to World Bank to replace costly debt

    Swap deal to buy back bonds issued in January comes as African borrowers struggle under expensive debt burdens

    Fresh fish is sold at a market in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Sovereign debt
    The positive flipside of rampant inflation

    The biggest debt reduction scheme in history?

  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Jérôme Legras
    Le Shutdown: a budget rejection would hit France’s credibility with investors

    Markets hate uncertainty and the stakes in the current constitutional turmoil could not be higher

    Michel Barnier is seen arriving at the Elysee Palace for a weekly cabinet meeting
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Chinese economy
    China’s benchmark bond yields dip below 2% in 22-year low

    Smaller lenders pile into 10-year debt as they seek secure assets

    The People's Bank of China building in Beijing, with a Chinese flag flying above it
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    Global Economy
    Will the US jobs market rebound?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

    Hiring signage displayed at a job fair hosted in North Carolina
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Chinese bond market grapples with ‘Japanification’

    Deflation fuels ‘inexorable’ slide in China’s long-term sovereign bond yields below Japan’s for the first time

    The image features the flags of Japan and China side by side, with a jagged black line chart overlayed across both flags
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Markets InsightKatie Martin
    France should heed the ‘grumpy mum’ warnings on debt

    The convergence of French yields with Greece’s is a reality check

    French economy, finance and industry minister Antoine Armand speaking at the National Assembly in Paris, France
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    French economy
    French bond yields surpass Greece’s for first time as budget worries swirl

    Investors fear dispute over planned tax rises and spending cuts could topple Michel Barnier’s government

    The Paris skyline
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    France
    French markets hit by threat of government collapse

    Paris’s cost of borrowing relative to Germany reaches highest level since Eurozone crisis in 2012

    French Prime Minister Michel Barnier outside the Élysée Palace in Paris on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka launches debt swap deal to end sovereign default

    Agreement with bondholders expected to bring two-year restructuring saga to a close

    People play  street cricket in Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    US dollar
    Dollar falls after Trump names Bessent to Treasury role

    US bond yields drop as hedge fund manager nominated for top economic position

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  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Sovereign debt
    German bond investors bet on an end to Berlin’s ‘debt brake’

    A key indicator has fallen below zero for the first time as market braces for higher German borrowing

    The sun rises behind the buildings of the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Global Economy
    Strong dollar set to hit emerging market bonds, warn investors

    EM debt funds suffer outflows as hopes of rate cuts by developing nations fade

    Workers exit the Central Bank of Brazil headquarters in Brasilia,
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    Foreigners dump Chinese government bonds as popular trade unwinds

    Investors who had borrowed renminbi to buy sovereign debt hit by market sell-off

    The People’s Bank of China building in Beijing
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Municipal bonds
    Playing hardball or facing hard times?

    It’s tough to negotiate a budget in public with a glitchy CMS

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Eurozone economy
    ECB warns low growth and high debt risk Eurozone crisis

    Central bank report sounds alarm on potential concerns over ‘sovereign debt sustainability’

    Containers being loaded onto a cargo ship in Frankfurt, Germany, with a view of the city and the European Central Bank in the background
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Global Economy
    Q&A: Experts answered your questions on trade and markets in the Trump era

    FT journalists responded to readers’ queries on how the global economy might change under the incoming president

    Montage of Alan Beattie, Brooke Masters and Andy Bounds
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    China borrows almost as cheaply as US in return to dollar bond market

    Investors place nearly $40bn of orders to buy $2bn of bonds issued by China’s finance ministry

    The CCTV Tower and surrounding buildings in Beijing, China, at dusk
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Ukraine
    Ukraine’s bonds jump as investors bet Trump will end war

    Rally in dollar debt is unlikely ‘Trump trade’ and comes just months after huge restructuring

    Ukrainian servicemen fire a M777 howitzer at Russian positions near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine
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