IGOV News and Press, iShares S&P/Citigroup International Treasury Bond From 09/16/20

The solution now to the enormously ballooning debts in developed economies: Firing up consumer price inflation and letting it run hot, according to the newest dogma trotted out incessantly by the Fed and other central banks, and hope that rapid economic growth will take care of the rest. The...

By Erin Bigley Transcript: With central banks anchoring official rates at historically low levels, investors are understandably concerned that today's low government bond yields will limit downside protection going forward. And they're worried that government bonds will have less ro...

By Darren Williams & Guy Bruten The COVID-19 pandemic has caused enormous dislocations in the world economy in a shockingly short time. The wave of policy support unleashed in response has stabilized activity, but it has also inflated an already sizable debt overhang. Governments now f...

After months of plummeting yields, 10-year government bonds experienced a sell-off in August. Leading the pack was the UK's 10-year Gilt yield, which closed the month 22 basis points higher at 0.31%. The country's economy entered its deepest recession on record, as gross domestic product plung...

Jobless reports have been creating a lot of the headlines over the past few weeks, but many investors are also worried about another economic number: Inflation. In this two-part series, I will explain why inflation matters for most investors, and what to expect in the coming months. Sinc...

By Hemant Baijal, Head of Multi-Sector Portfolio Management, Global Debt Senior Portfolio Manager We believe the immense global fiscal and monetary response to the coronavirus pandemic could continue to provide very attractive opportunities within global fixed income markets. The fir...

By Daniel Lacalle According to the International Monetary Fund ((IMF)), global fiscal support in response to the crisis will be more than $9 trillion, approximately 12 percent of world GDP. This premature, clearly rushed, probably excessive, and often misguided chain of so-called stimu...

Jens Van 't Klooster is a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven and is also a member of the research group, A New Normative Framework for Financial Debt at the University of Amsterdam. Jens has recently coauthored an article titled *The Myth of Market Neutrality: A Comparative Study of the Europea...

Among this week's highlights indicating emerging market focus on accessing long-term debt are a 30-year issue for the Emirate of Sharjah and plans by Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem (BAK) to raise hybrid debt, following recent perpetual sales by Emirates NBD, Banorte (GBOOF) and DP Wor...

Yields dropped across most sovereign debt markets in June, amid continued central bank stimulus actions to address the economic fallout from COVID-19. Greece and Italy's 10-year government bonds saw by far the biggest moves during the month. Both countries are eligible for the European Central...