One prime example is gold. The price of gold per ounce soared past $2,700 in October as inflation and other economic concerns drove demand, while Treasury bonds began offering their highest ...

For the most widely held bond funds in 2024, taking on riskier bonds was a winning strategy. Meanwhile, funds focused on longer-term, interest-rate-sensitive securities got hammered. The $172 ...

The Ministry of Finance continues attracting the bulk of funds from bonds that will potentially become reserve bonds (the NBU has not yet decided on them), receiving significant demand and reducing ...

Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. lost about ¥140 billion ($890 million) selling off bonds with longer maturities to prepare for higher interest rates. The insurer sold about ¥500 billion of Japanese ...

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The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds reached its highest level in 14 months. Bond yields have surged worldwide, threatening to lift mortgage rates and credit card payments for hundreds of ...

Investors are demanding sharply higher yields on government bonds, threatening to upend the Labour Party’s plans to reinvigorate a stagnant British economy. By Eshe Nelson Reporting from London ...

Surely, then, it is a bad time to own catastrophe bonds? These are securities that protect issuers, mostly insurers and governments, from severe losses in the event of a natural disaster by paying ...

Annual issuance of global sustainable bonds reached $1 trillion for the second time in 2024, fueled by record sales of green and sustainability notes. And sustainability chiefs on Wall Street ...

Bond returns have been mediocre, as the final annual numbers on the portfolio performance of ordinary investors reveal, but U.S. equities have paid off handsomely, with annual returns for the S&P ...

What is going on? Central bankers across the rich world have cut interest rates—yet the real economy is seeing little or no relief. The borrowing costs facing firms and households have barely ...

LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - High government spending and a growing need among big economies - from the United States to Britain and France - to tap bond markets to fund their outlays have shot up ...