The UK’s bond market is on fire. It’s the 2022 gilts crisis all over again. Investors are recoiling in horror at the Labour government’s policies. That, listeners, is what the more excitable bits of the internet would have you believe. Is it right though? I’m gonna give you a ...
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Want more evidence that the U.S. economy is in good shape? Just take a look at the junk bond market. The spread between risky high-yield (or junk) corporate bonds and “safe” U.S. Treasuries has fallen to just 2.84 percentage points, as seen in the chart below. That’s the smalle...
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Hina Bhudia, a partner at Knight Frank Finance, noted that a handful of lenders had kickstarted the year by increasing rates slightly due to the volatility seen in the bond market earlier this month. "That volatility has since eased and we do expect lenders to cut mortgage ...
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This means that the corporate bond asset class just gets that much better. The second is, if the economy is going to get back on its feet, it probably means that the bulk of the interest rate decline has already occurred. And usually, the mortgage market will do best in a more ...
The phrase "market is up" means the stock, bond, or commodity market, or an index representing them, currently trades higher than it did at some specific point in the past. Most of the time, financial media and individual investors refer to the stock market, saying it is up or down, t...