Recently East Asian policymakers have focused on facilitating corporate bond market development through a host of financial market reforms including greater foreign participation in the domestic markets as issuers and investors. However, the alternate approach – the encouragement of domestic issuers to ...
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Corporate bond enthusiasts will be familiar with the 30/360 interest accrual method for corporate bonds. Naturally, this led me to consider the current state of the investment grade (IG) corporate bond market. Since the start of the year, we have seen credit spreads (...
The OTC market for bonds is an important segment of the overall bond market, providing investors with opportunities to trade bonds that are not listed on formal exchanges. Unlike the more well-known exchange-traded bonds, which are traded on organized exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange o...
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Most experts believe the United States central bank will keep interest rates unchanged when policy makers meet next week. But many investors are concerned about pressure for higher interest rates in Europe and Asia. Another influence on the bond market is the willingness of foreign countries to buy...
The “yield curve” might sound like something you learned and forgot about in driver’s ed, but it’s actually an important part of understanding the bond market, borrowing costs, and the broader economy. The yield curve might even tell you when the next recession is coming. Yield curves ...
2010s, central banks may once again lack enough stimulus tools. The temptation now is to find another way out: to ditch the 2% inflation targets of recent decades and raise them modestly to, say, 4%. That is likely to be on the menu when the Fed begins its next strategy review in ...
Tunisia/Swiss Banks/Gold – What’s Next? The blow up in Egypt is going to create ripples all over the globe. It will certainly be disruptive for equities and the dollar. It will influence global bond yields and the PM markets. The oil market could be in for a short-term shock. It ...
“If you flood the market with capital … that typically results in more competition and typically pressures pricing a bit. I think there’s a bit of a desire to just be a bit more cautious about capital raising and how much actually comes in over the next year,” said Evans. Lates...