IGOV News and Press, iShares S&P/Citigroup International Treasury Bond From 02/10/19

The global economies are in a synchronous slowdown. Unfortunately, there is not much more that the BOJ, Bank of China, ECB, Fed and all other major monetary bodies can do at this point. Interest rates are low, and we are not suffering from a lack of money or liquidity. While all of this may ...

Posted by Rob Waldner, Chief Strategist and Head of Multi-Sector on Feb 6, 2019, in Fixed Income Invesco Fixed Income shares its views on rates around the world US: Neutral. In the near term, we expect Treasury yields to be stuck between better-than-expected growth and a do...

The global economy is way past the point of maximum debt saturation, and so the next stop is debt exhaustion. Just as generals fight the last war, central banks always fight the last financial crisis. The Global Financial Crisis ((GFC)) of 2008-09 was primarily one of liquidity as market...

My main job on these pages is to distill the market Narrative™ for my readers, and recent events have made this week’s missive a layup. The debate on whether to fire, and how to arm, the fiscal bazooka has continued, and now monetary policymakers have joined the party. For a whil...

Eight banks are coming under scrutiny by the European Commission in an investigation into traders at the banks who allegedly aimed to distort competition in trading bonds issued by eurozone governments from 2007 to 2012, Bloomberg reports. More news on: Vanguard Total International Bond ...

Recently, 1) the Fed wisely rolled back its plans to hike interest rates and to shrink its balance sheet and 2) Chinese negotiators made clear that they are willing to do a trade deal. These are good things that the markets reacted well to. At the same time, a) the wealth/opportunity gap is in...

The global media seems endlessly fascinated by the question of whether monetary policy in the US is too easy or too tight, even as the Fed comes amazingly close to hitting its targets. I suppose this interest can be partly justified by the size and influence of the US, which David Beckworth ca...