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2 weeks ago | 
panewslab.com | Alice Atkins |Liz McCormick
By Alice Atkins & Liz Capo McCormick, Bloomberg Compiled by: Felix, PANews Investors often flock to U.S. Treasuries to escape financial market turmoil, and they have rebounded during the global financial crisis, 9/11 and even during the U.S.'s own credit rating downgrade. Yet in early April, amid the chaos unleashed by President Trump’s imposition of “reciprocal” tariffs, something unusual happened.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Ye Xie |Alice Atkins |Masaki Kondo
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 7. Photographer: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images(Bloomberg) -- Treasuries sank for a third straight day, with long-end yields rising most amid growing cracks in the haven status of US government debt. The selloff was sharpest in notes and bonds maturing in 10 to 30 years, where losses are amplified when yields climb.
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1 month ago | 
bnnbloomberg.ca | Alice Gledhill |Alice Atkins |James Hirai
Traders boosted their expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts this year as the U.S. administration’s tariffs ignite fears of a global recession, and markets increasingly are also betting on an emergency reduction. Markets priced 125 basis points of easing by year end, equivalent to five quarter-point moves, overnight interest-rate swaps showed. As of last week, just three reductions were fully priced.
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1 month ago | 
spokesman.com | Alice Atkins |Michael Mackenzie
US Treasuries extended gains as markets took reassurance that policymakers at the Federal Reserve are still on a path toward lower interest rates. The advance on Thursday pushed yields on five-year notes below 4% for the first time since mid-March, with action in the options market indicating traders see a further drop in the next month. The two-year rate, most sensitive to changes in monetary policy, slid to 3.96% after falling as much as seven basis points on Wednesday.
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2 months ago | 
nz.news.yahoo.com | Alice Gledhill |Alice Atkins
(Bloomberg) -- The selloff in Germany’s bonds gained traction on Friday after Chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz won political backing for a debt-funded spending package for defense and infrastructure.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Jan-Patrick Barnert |Sagarika Jaisinghani |Alice Atkins
(Bloomberg) -- Germany’s extraordinary spending plans are shaking up the region’s markets, powering European equities past US peers this year and reviving the euro from the brink of parity with the dollar. Most Read from BloombergChancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said Germany would do “whatever it takes” — a catchphrase made famous by former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi — to defend the country and amend the constitution to exempt defense and security from limits on fiscal spending.
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2 months ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alice Atkins
Banks and hedge funds are beefing up their foreign exchange desks as volatility boosts profits.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
bloomberg.com | Vassilis Karamanis |Alice Atkins
Traders are betting on bigger swings in the euro as the currency market wagers that the next focus of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs is Europe. The common currency has already experienced the most volatility since 2022 in the past week, as US threats and the imposition of some trade tariffs turned to retaliations and delays. Now demand for options that pay out if recent trading ranges widen further is surging.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
hk.news.yahoo.com | Alice Atkins
【彭博】-- 美國國債本周開局不利，在上周五公佈了表現亮眼的就業報告後，交易員縮減對聯儲會的降息押注。 基準10年期國債殖利率周一上漲4個基點，至4.80%，為2023年11月以來最高水平。30年期國債殖利率也升至接近5%，上周五一年多來首次突破這一水平。 引發市場拋售的是對持續通膨壓力和政府債務水平飆升的擔憂，這導致貨幣市場對美國今年降息的押注降至不到一次。這正在波及全球市場，一項美元指數飆升至兩年高點，歐洲債券承壓。 「現在市場面臨的一個大問題是聯儲會今年是否真的需要降息，」ING外匯策略主管Chris Turner稱。「美元走強和美國國債殖利率堅挺正在考驗金融體系。」 周五的非農就業數據使市場得到了美國經濟韌性的進一步證據，12月份非農就業人數增加256,000人，為3月以來最大增幅，高於接受彭博調查的除一人外其他所有經濟學家的預期。 推薦閱讀：美國債市：30年期殖利率盤中升破5% 交易員進一步下調降息預期 聯儲會預期的轉變正在提振美元，彭博美元即期指數周一升至2022年11月以來最高水平。這拖累英鎊跌至一年多來最低水平，英國資產仍處於全球資產重新定價的震中。...
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Alice Atkins
(Bloomberg) — Treasuries started the week on the backfoot as traders scaled back bets on Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts following Friday’s blowout US employment report. Yields on benchmark 10-year bonds (^TNX) rose as much as four basis points on Monday to 4.80%, the highest level since November 2023. Yields on 30-year debt also picked up to near 5% after breaching that level on Friday for the first time in more than a year.
