(Bloomberg) -- Mario Draghi said the European Central Bank's quantitative-easing program is working better than expected, even though the institution will take longer than intended to reach its inflation goal.
There's only one topic in financial markets that has caught the imagination of a Page 3 model, the New York Fed's policy wonks and just about nobody in-between. The issue of 'bond market liquidity' is a big trender.
More and more, bond traders are drawing the same conclusion: central bankers globally are coming up short in their attempts to combat the world's economic woes.
US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said she is ready to raise interest rates this year.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the U.S. central bank is on track to raise interest rates this year.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the U.S. central bank is on track to raise interest rates this year
Wall Street banks may have finally hit on a way to pinpoint the value of analysts and squeeze more money from their research
Bond prices rose in the United States and Australia as the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates revealed a far more dovish view of the global economy than markets had expected.
An interest rate rise in the US would be good news for bonds, but what does it mean for property investors and the sharemarket?
After last week, investors could be excused for hoping markets might settle down to a period of tranquillity. But that's not the signal from the US bond market.
No wonder the Fed is confused; the data has been as mixed up as some of the recent market moves.
Apple is set to smash the record for the largest corporate bond issue in Australia, raising $2.25 billion. Apple's first ever Australian dollar Kangaroo bond has attracted $3 billion of orders from fixed income fund managers.
Australian fixed income investors are lining up to subscribe to Apple's first Kangaroo bond issue, with orders for the raising exceeding $2.5 billion within hours of launch.
Order books for Apple's first-ever Australian dollar bond issue exceeded $1.2 billion within two hours of the US tech giant formally launching its debut offer.
Ever since Apple's perfectly timed debut debt raising with the top of the bond market, its moves have been closely tracked. So what can we read into its plans to raise debt in the Australian bond market?
Can you remember life before the iPhone? The "revolutionary and magical" product first went on sale in July 2007 .That month was significant for another reason: it was the last time that the Bank of England base rate went up.
Hard to imagine now, but 2015 was once forecast as the year the US would pay off its national debt.
After an eight-year interlude, Saudi Arabia's government bond sales are coming alive.
The US central bank stepped up its efforts this week to shake complacency out of the US bond market, going to some pains to warn investors that US interest rates could rise as soon as next month
As investors watched on with dismay as the US share market slumped overnight, a tweet from bond king Bill Gross highlighted the growing risks from the deepening emerging markets crisis.
Tom Hayes had only been working on UBS's Tokyo trading floor for two months when a call to London set him on a course to serial rate rigging – and prison.
Janet Yellen is telling fibs. So thinks the global interest rate market, which is pricing in a significantly more gentle path for rate rises than the US Federal Reserve.
Activist investor Carl Icahn believes there is a huge bubble brewing in the $US3.7tn US corporate bond market with BlackRock and Janet Yellen to blame.
If the EU decides to walk away from Greece there is a €313 billion debt pile that will not be honoured. Who bears the losses?
Bond investors and pundits have long-complained the market is hard to read, something that makes it hard for those on the retail side to know if they're getting a good deal or not. But has that changed in the last week?
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