Venezuelan default risk rises
Bets on a Venezuelan default are climbing as international reserves near $US10b amid heightened anti-government protests.
Bets on a Venezuelan default are climbing as international reserves near $US10b amid heightened anti-government protests.
Foreigners own less than 1 per cent of Chinese bonds, which are the third-largest pool of debt securities. But share trading will always be the main game.
Growth is stronger than expected and this will enable the ECB to slowly normalise policy, the Germany's finance minister says.
The bond connect program with Hong Kong will give offshore investors another way to access the mainland's $US10 trillion debt market.
As the second half of the year arrives, a market shakeout clearly beckons as a discernible change in mood among central bankers registers with investors.
Investors are shrugging off the risks and jumping into emerging-market debt. Even Papua New Guinea is planning to get in on the action.
Non-bank lender La Trobe Financial has its second residential mortgage backed security transaction for 2017 in the works, according to sourc...
ANZ says South Australia is more risky after its budget, so it's sold some of the state's debt which it holds.
The mood European investors has improved despite mixed cyclical and secular factors influencing the continent's markets and economy.
Investors are advising the Treasury that bringing back 20-year bonds, which have not been sold since 1986, would help deepen the current mar...
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