The Bank of England said Thursday it is consulting on making further efforts to boost liquidity in corporate-bond markets by offering to make sales of corporate debt, as well as buying it. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The term “sukuk bond” is a slightly odd one. Bonds are usually associated with interest payments. Sukuk refers to a financial instrument that complies with Islamic investment principles, which prohibit interest payments. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Japan government bond yields may extend last month’s biggest drop this year as the Bank of Japan will ease monetary policy again after this week’s 10 trillion yen ($114 billion) measure, Kokusai Asset Management Co. said. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Australia’s New South Wales Treasury Corp (TCorp) has issued A$220 million ($204 million) of 2025 indexed bonds at an outright real yield of 3.67 percent, it said on Thursday. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Venezuela’s benchmark dollar bonds plunged, sending yields to a four-month high, after President Hugo Chavez threatened to seize more banks following the government’s takeover of four lenders. [Read the rest of this entry...]
A low appetite for risk and lingering uncertainty about the health of the stock market has many consumers weighing the pros and cons of bonds and other fixed income investments. [Read the rest of this entry...]
After shaking up the U.S. taxable debt market for the last eight months, Build America Bonds are slowly attracting the attention of investors from other countries. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Investors yesterday swarmed the government’s last auction for Treasury bonds (T-bonds) this year after the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) extended the tenor of the debt paper to 25 years from the original plan of 10 years. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Canadian bonds ended lower across the yield curve Wednesday as the market continued its retreat from earlier strength. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Shiseido Co., Japan’s biggest cosmetics maker, sold 50 billion yen ($570 million) in five- year bonds for investment and to repay debt. [Read the rest of this entry...]
