Pimco sees China deleveraging softening
China's campaign to curb financial leverage, which pushed bond yields to three-year highs in 2017, may become less intense this year as growth in the economy decelerates.
How California became home to bond kings
The white sand and blue water of the Pacific have provided a backdrop for the world's biggest bond managers to do their thing.
Pimco sells Australia banks, property bonds
The unwinding of some of its holdings in Australian lenders' debt is the first such move in about five years.
New bond market vigilantes are rising
There are signs that the once feared punishers of profligate spending are lurking again, lured back by an expansionary fiscal policy and signs of resurgent inflation.
The index of market indexes is hitting a record
Operating market benchmarks like the FTSE and the Dow is becoming a very lucrative business.
Here's what will reveal if bond market rout has legs
How high will Treasury yields climb? The next month may just hold the answer.
Keep your eye on the impact of rising bond yields
One of the big issues for investors with offshore holdings is the impact of market falls on the US dollar.
Latvia central bank chief questioned in corruption probe
Latvia's anti-corruption agency has detained the country's central bank chief, who sits on the European Central Bank governing council.
'Stuff starts blowing up', if rates go back up
We should care very deeply about interest rates, but we don't. That's probably because rates have been low for so long that the deficit hawks and bond vigilantes have fallen asleep.
US bond market has done its dash: PIMCO
As the US 10-year bond rate heads towards 3 per cent, its time to load up on bonds says Mark Kiesel, chief investment officer of global credit at fixed income giant PIMCO.
Time for investors to sell long-dated bonds
Individual investors should be at the very least consider swapping long-dated bonds for those with shorter dated maturities, or switch into cash and alternative investments, experts say.
US set to sink $1 trillion further into debt
Treasury mainly attributed the increase to the "fiscal outlook". The Congressional Budget Office was more blunt. In a report this week, the CBO said tax receipts are going to be lower because of the new tax laws.
Markets are at a treacherous junction
Interest rates simply have to rise, but the global economy still may have time to adjust.
There is only one question investors need to ask
Investors in the know are focused on the one question that really matters: will US 10-year government bond yields rise above 3 per cent?
Bond markets: Is the bull run over?
It's one of the most dramatic market shifts in history — the slow but sure collapse in bond yields over the past three decades.
What investors can learn from instant noodles
China has paved the way for investors to reshape their capital markets but have the interests of its policymakers and Western capital finally aligned?
Contagion risk in big bond bubble
Is the fixed-rate government bond market – to be distinguished from floating-rate securities – in the mother-of-all bubbles? Very likely.
'Bond bull market of the last 36yrs is over'
The current "ice age" began in 1981 when the US Federal Reserve delivered a crushing monetary shock and defeated the Great Inflation. But if the chartists are right - the downtrend line has finally broken.
How to safeguard your portfolio in 2018
The story of 2017 was how markets shrugged off everything geopolitics could throw at them. Can the synchronised growth across regions last?
ASX bull run isn't over, but beware the 'bondcano'
The sharemarket will continue to climb into 2018 off the back of low rates and rising earnings, but rising yields will put a dent in bond-sensitive asset prices.
Morrison pushes super industry on business lending
The Treasurer has thrown his weight behind a push for more superannuation funds to develop new ways of lending to local companies.
Markets are never wrong, until there is a crash
Gains in Bitcoin and Wall Street this year have challenged the theory that the market is never wrong.
For active investors, a Christmas wish for market volatility
Bond market investment managers are hoping that Santa brings greater market volatility after a tough year for active investors.
Powell inherits a Fed slowly earning bond traders' trust
The third US interest rate increase predicted for this year looks set to take place next month, and the market is starting to price in a greater chance of another hike in March.
Bank of England hikes rates for first time in decade
The Bank of England raised interest rates for the first time in more than a decade, doubling its benchmark rate to 0.5 per cent.
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