by bondevalue | Oct 10, 2018 | Financial News, Sovereign Bonds
China’s Ministry of Finance plans to issue US$3 billion of 5-year, 10-year and 30-year bonds on 11 October 2018. This comes a year after the sovereign tapped the U.S. dollar bond markets for US$2 billion, after a more than 10-year hiatus. Although the Ministry...
by bondevalue | Oct 8, 2018 | Financial News
The US economy continued to strengthen in September leading the Fed to hike rates for the third time this year to an upper bound of 2.25%. The Fed rate hike, coupled with strong employment data for the month of September, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield to a...
by bondevalue | Sep 23, 2018 | Bank of Japan, Financial News, Macroeconomic news, Sovereign Bonds
The Bank of Japan (“BOJ”) trimmed its buying of bonds due in more than 25 years by 10 billion yen ($88.9 million) to 50 billion yen at its regular operation on 21 September 2018, the first reduction since July. The central bank had said in July that it...
by bondevalue | Sep 17, 2018 | Financial News, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
Yields on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note topped 3% on Friday, 14 September for the first time since 2 August and continued to fall early this week as investors weighed conflicting data on the economy and Federal Reserve policy. Yields have been creeping up...
by bondevalue | Sep 11, 2018 | Financial News, HomePage
Written By Simon Littlewood. Featuring Mark Leahy. On September 15th, 2008 Lehman Brothers filed what was – and remains – the largest bankruptcy in history. The bankruptcy, known as the “Lehman shock”, triggered huge drops in global stock markets and,...
by bondevalue | Sep 10, 2018 | Financial News, Global, High Yield Bonds
Tesla’s $1.8 billion 5.3% bonds due 2025 fell late last week to an all-time low as Chief accounting officer Dave Morton resigned after just a month with the company and amid new alarming antics from CEO Elon Musk, who smoked weed and drank whiskey during an...
