Venezuelan default risk rises
Bets on a Venezuelan default are climbing as international reserves near $US10b amid heightened anti-government protests.
Exchanges group big winner in HK bond link
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.
Germany's Schäuble says it's time to end 'crazy' rates
Growth is stronger than expected and this will enable the ECB to slowly normalise policy, the Germany's finance minister says.
China opens bond market to world trade
The bond connect program with Hong Kong will give offshore investors another way to access the mainland's $US10 trillion debt market.
Taper Tantrum II is no summer blockbuster
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 hot on emerging-market debt
Investors are shrugging off the risks and jumping into emerging-market debt. Even Papua New Guinea is planning to get in on the action.
La Trobe kicks off RMBS
Non-bank lender La Trobe Financial has its second residential mortgage backed security transaction for 2017 in the works, according to sourc...
ANZ offloads SA government bonds
ANZ says South Australia is more risky after its budget, so it's sold some of the state's debt which it holds.
Reluctant Europe ponders prosperity
The mood European investors has improved despite mixed cyclical and secular factors influencing the continent's markets and economy.
Investors call for 20-year Treasury sales
Investors are advising the Treasury that bringing back 20-year bonds, which have not been sold since 1986, would help deepen the current mar...
