Comparing across the sectors,
the Chinese government bonds outperformed the corporate bonds last month; the S&P China Government Bond Index advanced 1.56 %.
Under sovereigns and quasi-sovereigns, we have the bonds issued by
Chinese government bonds, the four major policy banks in China, as well as the other global central bank, like Korean Development Bank.
Could relatively high - yielding
Chinese government bonds be the answer?
A major index will include
Chinese government bonds in 2018, dragging foreign money into a $ 9 trillion market.
In fact, the 10 - year
Chinese government bond yield fell following the major announcements (Graph B, right - hand panel).
To provide an example, the yield of the two - year
Chinese government bond in yuan is around 3.35 %.
While the spreads of the yield curves have converged over time, some spread differences continue — e.g., 3 bps for a 5 - Year
Chinese government bond and higher for shorter - maturity bonds.
Not exact matches
Last fall, the B.C.
government also became the first foreign
government to issue
bonds into the
Chinese RMB market, issuing a one - year - term
bond that raised about $ 428 million Canadian.
A large sell - down by
Chinese authorities could spark a rise in US
bond yields, in turn putting pressure on US
government finances.
In Asia, stocks closed mostly higher but
Chinese bonds and equities stumbled after the
government announced new steps on banking oversight in an «arduous» fight on financial risks, Reuters reported.
If China runs a capital account deficit and the US a capital account surplus, and these are roughly equal to net purchases by the PBoC and other
Chinese government entities of US
government bonds and US assets, China will run a current account surplus exactly equal to its capital account deficit.
Total
Chinese investment in the US will be unchanged, but its form would differ as investment in risky instruments decline and investment in US
government bonds rise by the same amount.»
A January 2018 Bloomberg article suggests that
Chinese officials may reduce their purchases of U.S.
government bonds.
So yen were borrowed to convert into dollars, euros, Icelandic kroner and
Chinese renminbi to buy
government bonds, private - sector
bonds, stocks, currency options and other financial intermediation.
I personally believe that the above are good enough reasons to add pressure to Treasuries, but if we want more food for thought, we can not forget that China is the largest holder of US
government bonds after the Fed and if the rhetoric around a trade war escalates we can assume that this point would most likely be touched by
Chinese counterparties.
Bloomberg said on March 23 that it will include yuan - denominated
Chinese government and policy - bank
bonds in the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index.
Foreigners held 574 billion yuan, or about $ 87 billion, of
Chinese central
government bonds in November, official data showed, up 35 percent year on year.
Join Saxo bank fixed income specialist Althea Spinozzi in her latest webinar as she covers the 3 % line in the sand, the increasing prominence of
Chinese government debt in the fixed income space, and more issues facing
bond traders and investors.
The
Chinese policy may be slowly eroding the value of the US dollar, since the US is sometimes creating money to cover the shortfall or having its
bonds purchased by highly leveraged
governments that itself buys
bonds from in a reciprocal fashion.
But this time
Bond's writers have found a man so evil, that
Bond's British
government has to team up with the Communist
Chinese to beat him.
While both
Chinese government and corporate
bonds traded tighter, the yield of the S&P China Corporate
Bond Index tightened by 91bps to 5.56 %, as of June 30, 2014.
The
Chinese dissident artist has complied with the
government and has made good a $ 1.3 m (# 820,000)
bond in order to begin an appeal against a $ 2.5 m tax bill.
The deal is set to be a benchmark for other
Chinese issuers seeking alternatives to the usual source of bank loans for green investments, and is part of the
Chinese Government's initiatives to expand the green
bond market and promote clean energy use.