The divergence
between sovereign debt and the credit market's pricing of reflation is on the surface a bit of a conundrum.
Not exact matches
Data from the Portuguese Finance Ministry showed that the country paid less than 300 million euros ($ 368.49 million) in interest on its
sovereign debt between 2016 and 2017 due to the increasingly optimistic views from the ratings agencies.
The iShares Intermediate Credit Bond ETF tracks a market - weighted index of USD - denominated investment grade corporate,
sovereign, supranational, local authority and non-US agency
debt with maturities
between 1 - 10 years.
Between June and July 2015, it appeared that the divergences separating the Greek far - left Tsipras government and its EU and international interlocutors had the potential of leading to a
sovereign debt default.
(
Between $ 11 trillion and $ 13 trillion worth of global
sovereign debt currently carries a negative yield.)
Yield spreads
between emerging market
sovereign debt and US Treasuries have remained relatively low over the past three months in most markets (Graph 12).
This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our
sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction
between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national
debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.
In development cooperation, an area of «shared» competences
between the EU institutions and the member states, it has remained unexplored how economic recession, the
sovereign debt crisis, austerity, the struggle in the eurozone and increasing Euroscepticism have affected the relationship
between the EU and its member states.
Sovereign debt is not like a credit card, it's issued in the form of securities (bonds) with a fixed term
between a few weeks and thirty years.
Birmingham's development takes account of the causes and associated indicators of
sovereign debt crises varying
between different countries and regions.
As for the ETFs of
sovereign debt, you can't really separate the risk in the Euro zone
between the PIIGS and your Denmark & Germany.
THERE IS NO DISCERNIBLE DEFAULT FREQUENCY or frequency variation around any
sovereign debt rated above A. Thus, S&P's own study shows no default variation differential
between AAA & A.
In any case, the overall market continues to be range bound, with the S&P 500
between 1,100 and 1,350, weighted down by the European
sovereign debt problem.
While ETF traders have been saying stocks were poised for some sort of downside correction, particularly in view of riots in Greece in the wake of Standard & Poor's downgrade of that country's
sovereign debt to junk status, Thursday's swift and unprecedented price action —
between 2:30 and 3:00 p.m. EDT — clearly involved computers as opposed to panicked humans.