Where Can Bond Investors Find Bond Prices?
Before we get into details about where investors can find bond prices, it is important to understand how bonds are traded and how the trading process is different from stocks. Trading Process for Stocks vs. Bonds Stocks are traded on an exchange where the buyer and...
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BondEvalue Unveils BondbloX – World’s First Blockchain-Based Bond Exchange
Press Release 4 November 2019 Platform to launch via the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Sandbox Express BondEvalue to make bonds accessible by reducing denominations to US$1,000 Singapore, 4 November 2019 – Singapore based BondEvalue today announced that it has...
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HY Bonds Outperform in Sept Amid Record 9M19 Issuance
The month of September was mixed for bond investors with 41% of bonds in the BEV universe having a positive price return (ex-coupon), while 59% delivered a negative price return. It was a month of recovery for high-yield (HY) bonds, which saw a sell-off during July...
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India’s Yes Bank Bonds Sell-off After Shares Collapsed
Yes Bank Ltd., one of India’s largest private sector lenders, saw its dollar bonds sell-off by a record 5.5 cents to 80.9 cents on the dollar, the lowest since the bonds were sold in 2018. This was on the back of investor concerns over the health of India’s finance...
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Close to 10 billion of China Offshore Bonds Due in 2020, Prompting Fears of Record Bond Defaults
A record amount of China offshore bond defaults could hit the markets next year as close to US$10 billion in dollar debt from the country matures. US$8.6 billion of offshore dollar bonds will come due in 2020, that were issued by now-stressed borrowers, which are...
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Hong Kong’s Rating Outlook by Moody’s Turns Negative
Hong Kong’s rating outlook has been downgraded by Moody’s to “negative” from “stable” as a result of the weakening of the Special Administrative Region’s (SAR’s) institutions amid ongoing protests in the city. The international credit agency has affirmed Hong Kong’s...
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Flight to Quality Continues for Bond Investors
Bond investors continued to move towards safety and quality amid negative sentiment world over. US President Trump upped the ante on the trade war with additional tariffs on US$ 300 billion in Chinese imports. Protests in Hong Kong continued to disrupt the peace and...
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Egypt to Issue up to US$7 Billion Offshore Bonds by 2020
Egypt plans to issue US$3 billion to US$7 billion of international bonds by the end of its 2020 financial year. The sovereign had borrowed heavily from overseas sources since a $12 billion IMF-backed economic reform programme was agreed upon in late 2016, and now...
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US Ultra-Long Treasury Bonds Likely to Meet Resistance
The U.S. government's most recent re-look at plans to issue treasuries beyond 30-years will likely not only encounter resistance from the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee but also risk unsettling markets. This Committee, who advises Treasury Secretary Steven...
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